dicey

It’s difficult to get one’s hopes up when it comes to the dicey state of Hollywood filmmaking, and even more difficult to keep them there.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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

So with things getting dicey in north London, we're looking at the most surprising clubs to drop since the competition began in 1992.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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

Reaching that balance gets dicier when navigating a boardroom packed with titans of American industry and finance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

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

Moore liked always "digito monstrari et dicier, 'Hic est'"; and his Journal abounds with records of his ingenuous satisfaction in such tributes.

From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

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

But the diciest bit may have been an extended riff about Down Syndrome, beginning with Gillis saying that he is sometimes mistaken for having it based on his appearance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

Steward, 56, had one of the diciest gigs in all of Trump World.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019

As NBC’s Dan Hicks described it, the 100-meter butterfly has been “the diciest of Phelps' individual events throughout his career.”

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2012