riskily
Example Sentences
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The otherworldly gliding in sneakers, the toe-tip balances that splay riskily and recover: He effortlessly pushes everything a little further.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
Only those who earn a living as precariously, as riskily and with as much patient labor as a salmon fisherman, can so well value a dollar.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
