risky
adjective
attended with or involving risk; hazardous.
riskily
-
a word derived from
risky.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He expressed concern over Gutierrez’s lack of experience as a 24-year-old armorer and wrote that budget-concerned producers sometimes cut corners by riskily hiring people “who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2021
Meaning those who'd never had Covid-19 could mistakenly think they had immunity, and might then act riskily because of this false sense of security.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2020
But this trait has also sometimes made him appear ambivalent, an apt pose for a scholar-statesman but riskily indecisive for a president.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2016
If you got on a plane, and the pilot says, “I’m going to fly pretty riskily today,” you’d get off the plane pretty bloody fast.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014
Only those who earn a living as precariously, as riskily and with as much patient labor as a salmon fisherman, can so well value a dollar.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
