adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Making financial forecasts can be a very chancy business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, identification becomes a chancy thing even for the experts.
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But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.
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Fine for flat objects, chancy for bowl shapes.
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Getting to Cape Wrath is rather chancy .
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Publishers will not publish chancy , fat collections when they can publish a small number of readily marketable volumes.
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She was only half Jersey, and that half did not include her temper, which was chancy and morose.