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Definition of Dicey

1. Adjective. Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk. "An extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"

Definition of Dicey

1. Adjective. Fraught with danger. ¹

2. Adjective. Of uncertain, risky outcome. ¹

3. Adjective. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. ¹

4. Adjective. (slang) Nauseating, rank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dicey

1. dangerous [adj DICIER, DICIEST] - See also: dangerous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicey

Literary usage of Dicey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"By AV dicey, DCL London : Macmillan, 1905. 2. Report of the Central Executive Committee of the London Unemployed Fund, 1904-5. London: King and Son, 1905. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"By AV dicey, BCL Third Edition. London, 1887. 2. Why England maintains the ... By Professor AV dicey, prepared for popular use by CES ' London, 1887. 3. ..."

3. Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1855)
"dicey Langston was the daughter of Solomon Langston, of Laurens district, South Carolina. She possessed an intrepid spirit, which is highly serviceable in ..."

4. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"579- dicey (E.) Six Months in the Federal States. By Edward dicey. London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1863. 2 vols., post 8vo, pp. x, 310; I 1., pp. vi, ..."

5. The American Monthly Magazine by Daughters of the American Revolution (1899)
"dicey LANGSTON IN THE REVOLUTION. IN one of the sniall towns of South ... and Imis daughter dicey. dicey was about seventeen wimen time Revolution was at ..."

6. Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn by Mabel Hill, Albert Bushnell Hart (1901)
"... dicey (1885) The right to the writ of Habeas Corpus existed at common law long before the passing in 1679 of the celebrated Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. ..."

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