riskily
Example Sentences
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He expressed concern over Gutierrez’s lack of experience as a 24-year-old armorer and wrote that budget-concerned producers sometimes cut corners by riskily hiring people “who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2021
Meaning those who'd never had Covid-19 could mistakenly think they had immunity, and might then act riskily because of this false sense of security.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2020
But this trait has also sometimes made him appear ambivalent, an apt pose for a scholar-statesman but riskily indecisive for a president.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2016
It also, somewhat more riskily, tries to fold the kind of playful, wide-eyed high spirits familiar from the “Night at the Museum” movies into what is in effect a midlife melodrama.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2013
With "Eddy's" help the boat was safely, though riskily launched, as my passenger made it very top heavy.
From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
