dicey
Speech parts
1. dicey - Adjective
2. dicey - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
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I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog
According to the traditional doctrine (Dicey), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.
"As I've said repeatedly, the period between Election Day and election results is dicey," tweeted researcher J.J. MacNab of George Washington University's Program on Extremism.