adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What's happening about your new job?'' "The whole thing's rather iffy at the moment.''
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I was hoping to go to the beach today but it's looking iffy because of the weather.
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Your chances of finding a better job are iffy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hatch started off demonizing a Clinton appointee who let four likely cocaine dealers free on an iffy technicality.
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He looked definitely iffy to me, but not the sort of bad lad who carries out hits.
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If the downside is iffy , the upside is certain.
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It is a very iffy thing, this schooling.
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It is more a mode of address for a slightly iffy constitutional compromise that is drawing peacefully towards its close.
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Policy decisions are always exercises in the iffy math of social tradeoffs.
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Some iffy assumptions color this approach to the goals of mainstreaming.