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Synonyms for chancy
ˈtʃæn si, ˈtʃɑn-chancy
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Princeton's WordNet
chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgyadjective
of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
"an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
Synonyms:
tricksy, flukey, chanceful, cunning, dicey, slick, sly, fluky, knavish, crafty, wily, guileful, dodgy, tricky, foxy, iffychancy, fluky, flukey, iffyadjective
subject to accident or chance or change
"a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#15835 | slick | |
#15928 | tricky | |
#23246 | sly | |
#25806 | crafty | |
#26623 | cunning | |
#27566 | foxy | |
#36528 | dodgy | |
#48777 | wily | |
#67850 | iffy | |
#75645 | dicey | |
#157118 | chancy |
How to use chancy in a sentence?
If you play enough gin hands, a 1 or 2% difference in skill translates to almost an assured win over many, many, many hands of gin, but you could have a big difference — maybe a 60 to 40% skill level difference — and gin is still chancy enough to where you could play 10 hands and lose six or seven of the hands than someone much worse than you skill-wise.
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- рискован, несигуренBulgarian
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