riskily
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
riskily (comparative more riskily, superlative most riskily)
- In a risky or rather perilous manner.
- Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:
- [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
- 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522:
- They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]
Translations edit
in a risky or rather perilous manner — see also dangerously
References edit
- “riskily”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.