单词 | riskily |
释义 | riskilyadv. In a risky or hazardous manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adverb] > riskily hazardly1560 hazardously1611 riskily1860 1860 N. Buntline Morgan lv. 89/2 The men..hastened away to the expectant harpies outside, to lavish, in wild and licentious debaucheries, the money so riskily and hardly earned. 1874 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 79 His partner will..begin to play badly, or else too riskily, in the hope of overtaking the better player. 1931 New Eng. Q. 4 821 He became an exterminator of pumas, riskily tracking them down in dark caverns. 1987 Frontline May 12 A smattering of boos and hisses breaks out. A black man, riskily conspicuous, yells loudly: ‘Go back to the farm’. 2005 New Yorker 4 Apr. 95/1 Petrov is a riskily impaired hero for a work of genre fiction, a private ‘eye’ whose vision is occluded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1860 |
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