How to Use dicey in a Sentence
dicey
adjective
- Starting a business can be quite a dicey proposition.
- The weather looks a little dicey this morning. I hope it doesn't rain.
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Some simply play with dicey materials or push their work just past the edge more artfully than their peers.
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Eric Banks,
Town & Country,
1 Mar. 2012
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However, if life depends on rare minerals, then the chances of its emergence might be dicier.
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Quanta Magazine,
11 Aug. 2015
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When giant DC-10s go in to drop off some fire retardant in hopes of stopping a wildfire, sometimes things get a little dicey.
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Eric Limer,
Popular Mechanics,
19 July 2016
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But stating that individual weather events are definitely the result of climate change is dicey business.
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Molly Olmstead,
Slate Magazine,
13 Mar. 2017
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Nobody took their advice, but considering how dicey the economy has been lately, maybe the Fed should consider investing in darts.
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Jonathon Keats,
WIRED,
22 Aug. 2013
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After struggling without heat or air conditioning in a small shop in a dicey area of town, Hunter was forced to tell his few employees that Velomax was shutting down.
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David Whiting,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2017
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The prospect of enough GOP flips, then, made the math a bit dicey.
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Tom Benning,
Dallas News,
28 Dec. 2020
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And in the Senate, the bill’s prospects look even dicier.
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Eric Levitz,
Daily Intelligencer,
26 Oct. 2017
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Throughout the season, the Hawks have proven to be a dicey matchup.
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Chris Fedor,
cleveland,
31 Mar. 2022
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Things were dicey at first, but Perea worked on the respect.
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Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2022
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But a 9-0 game got a bit dicey with a four-run seventh.
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John Fay,
Cincinnati.com,
16 Apr. 2018
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Tears to Triumph Here’s where things start to get a bit dicey.
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Caroline Tew,
EW.com,
1 Aug. 2019
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Coming out publicly at the end of the ‘60s was dicey, but didn’t phase him.
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Niko Stratis,
SPIN,
16 Feb. 2022
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The Dodgers pulled ahead in the bottom of the eighth, and things got dicey for Jansen when the first two batters reached in the ninth.
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Mike Digiovanna,
latimes.com,
16 June 2019
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On the par-4 15th hole, his second shot cleared the pond but left him a dicey chip near the right green-side bunker.
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Bill Pennington,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2018
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Not that there weren’t some dicey moments to go through first.
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Stephen Schroats,
star-telegram.com,
17 June 2017
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Speight has to be a guy Michigan can lean on when things get dicey.
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Nick Baumgardner,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Sep. 2017
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There was a time when riding a bike in the city was simple, if a bit dicey.
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Eben Weiss,
Outside Online,
12 Sep. 2022
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It’s when your beloved pooch makes his way onto the bed that things can get dicey.
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Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
11 Dec. 2020
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Things got dicey late, thanks to another rough day for the bullpen.
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John Fay,
Cincinnati.com,
30 June 2019
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But figuring out which path the Tigers will take is dicey.
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Evan Petzold,
Detroit Free Press,
28 Sep. 2020
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Billups did point out that two wins, the first game at Phoenix and at Miami, were dicey.
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oregonlive,
11 Nov. 2022
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And even the politics of closing that tax break will be dicey.
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Alan Murray,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2017
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Leaving it up to me to find things is a dicey proposition.
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John Cherwa,
latimes.com,
24 May 2018
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That over will still be dicey as point projections are right around 48 for this game.
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Chris Wassel,
USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire,
22 Nov. 2019
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In Amherst, these are dicey times for the state’s flagship men’s basketball team.
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BostonGlobe.com,
20 Mar. 2021
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Those water temps are very dicey and don’t allow for mistakes.
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D'arcy Egan,
cleveland,
9 Dec. 2022
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Here’s a hypothetical scenario which attests to just how dicey this could get.
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Fox News,
8 Dec. 2022
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