adjective
Etymology
Origin of unchancy
Example Sentences
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It was plain that Grisell was in no state to be taken on a journey, and her mother went grumbling down the stair at the unchancy bairn always doing scathe.
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Thin I heard Spitfire clatterin' away in the dark an' I ran, draggin' the little goat after me to get past the place where the unchancy ould road dips down.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
Biorn said it was an unchancy, inhospitable kind of country where his father would never choose to live.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Na, na, Maister Weelum; dreams are queer, contrary, unchancy things to sweer by.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
His own birthday was on the thirteenth of the month, and he often laid his sorrows to that unchancy date.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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