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

As a frame, it’s self-aware, meta and riskily so.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2017

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

I said," he replied mendaciously, "that you have behaved foolishly and riskily, and with no dignity whatever.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein