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

If you got on a plane, and the pilot says, “I’m going to fly pretty riskily today,” you’d get off the plane pretty bloody fast.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014

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 Johnson, Frank Tenney