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词汇 dicey
释义 dicey
adjective
 informaluk /ˈdaɪ.si/ us /ˈdaɪ.si/dicier | diciest
slightly dangerous or uncertain: 有风险的;不确定的
The company's finances look a little dicey.该公司的财务状况似乎有些风险。
Synonyms
chancyinformal
dodgy(NOT RELIABLE)UKinformal
risky
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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baneful
banefully
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on/under pain of deathidiom
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parlously
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tombstoning
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dicey | American Dictionary


dicey
adjective
 infmlus/ˈdɑɪ·si/comparativedicier | superlativediciest
not certain or safe; risky:
Things are going to be a bit dicey until we know whether the budget was approved.

Examples of dicey


dicey
Or should not dicier/diciest, as the only acceptable forms, imply that dicey itself is illicit?
Dicey's comment on one aspect of this change is profound.
It is a dicey point.
The funding of the whole scheme appears to be extremely dicey.
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Those in the trade knew that things were dicey.
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That would lead to a very dicey situation.
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At the top end of the spectrum the industry was even then testing very thoroughly, but at the bottom end the testing was pretty dicey.
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These are the people who support this very dicey form of racing.
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It could be expensive and absorb a great deal of investment in a project that, unless underpinned, has a dicey future.
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But, when things get a bit "dicey", he cannot use them because there might be repercussions.
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I think it will only exacerbate a situation already, to coin a phrase, "sufficiently dicey".
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The whole thing looks to me to be very dicey.
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That would be dicey, anyway, with a resident population of 115,000.
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We always recognised that it was going to be a very "dicey" operation.
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They have a very dicey future unless land can be made available for additional tipping, space.
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