dangerouslyadverb
uk/ˈdeɪn.dʒər.əs.li/us/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ.əs.li/B1 in a way that is dangerous:
She drives dangerously.
He likes to live dangerously.
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- Food stores are reported to be running dangerously low in the capital.
- I was worried because he was running dangerously close to the cliff edge.
- That driver went dangerously fast, overtaking several cars, despite the wet conditions.
- The woman was waving a knife about dangerously in the air and shouting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dangers and threats
- baneful
- black spot
- brinkmanship
- calculated risk
- chance
- darkly
- desperately
- dodgy
- gamble
- hazardous
- hazmat
- high-risk
- hostage
- hostage to fortune idiom
- poisoned chalice
- precarious
- pull
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- risk
- treacherous
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