dicey

The resulting intimacy is appropriate for the play—and the $20 ticket price is all but unheard-of—but the sight lines can be dicey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

While “Drag Race” is no longer a niche program, the art of drag remains contentious, and giving a wide release to a film like this is both confident and dicey.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Slate’s Ian Prasad Philbrick wrote a fine piece about how this latest fad is dicey on both policy and political grounds.

From Slate ● May 2, 2026

Last week, we asked you to tell us about your biggest money mistakes — and you opened up about everything from dicey stock-market bets to spending habits that got out of control.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

Sometimes I get a tummy ache after breakfast, which makes lunch dicey, and there’s no way to get through the shift without at least one major refueling.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

What may have started out as a good idea became too good as deals got dicier.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

A December rate cut “is a little dicier than markets have it right now. You’re hanging a lot on the slowdown in nonfarm payrolls,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

But for hikers trapped near the eastern face of Everest, the return was much dicier.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

You don’t really want to hit a guardrail with a vehicle like that, but electrification can make things even dicier.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2024

Surely if plagiarism can ever be said “digito monstrari et dicier hic est,” it is here.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

Nor will Sir Keir’s diciest moments politically over the coming months necessarily all be a result of big tax and spend decisions he makes.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

When they did in Thursday’s third quarter, their lead grew during what have been the Clippers’ diciest stretches all season — the minutes that George sits for rest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

And don’t forget the evidently boundless career potential of Rami Malek, the only man eligible to assume the diciest role in Hollywood: Michael Jackson’s ghost.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2019

This isn’t any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019

Perhaps the diciest situation is in Dallas, where prevailing opinion is the Cowboys have tons of ability on the field, very little of it away from the field.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2012