risky
adjective
attended with or involving risk; hazardous.
riskier
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comparativeof risky.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Even Meta has had to offer more than 7 percent a year, while riskier cloud data center specialists have gone above 9 percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
As a result, foreign money tends to leave riskier emerging market assets such as Indian equities and chase safer investments like US bonds when interest rates rise.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Earlier in his career, Cruise regularly mixed roles in safer popcorn movies with riskier work by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Michael Mann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Because revenue bonds, which would be used to fund this program, are riskier than other bonds, investors might demand a higher return, translating to a higher interest rate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
As Allied bombing continued on German cities, the duties of the Hitler Youth grew riskier, especially as the older Hitler Youth were called to military service.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
