(n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
(n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
(n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
(n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(v. t.) To endanger.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
(13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
Gutsy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(2) It was a gutsy act that went down well in Scotland.
(3) It was a gutsy call from Kelly to go for it there rather than taking the easy field goal, but also an important one.
(4) It has to be cooked with ingredients that are equally gutsy and capable of standing up to its intensity.
(5) Its gutsy flavour means tarragon goes well with other strong ingredients in a ravigote sauce: chop lots of tarragon, chives, chervil, parsley and watercress, and mix them with some chopped anchovies, capers and cornichons, then stir in some olive oil, a tiny splash of tarragon vinegar, a little lemon juice and a dab of Dijon mustard.
(6) The meta-narrative was gutsy stuff, but cautiously so.
(7) Sheer political cowardice has prevented either revaluation or the introduction of higher bands (other than in gutsy Wales).
(8) There’s still loads more to come.’” Danny Garcia beats gutsy Robert Guerrero to claim WBC welterweight title Read more
(9) The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said Abbott “had been gutsy enough” to admit he needed to listen more, but had “not been given one news cycle of free air” and should be given a fair go.
(10) Except Bellows pushed it further and Stag at Sharkey's in particular established him "as a really gutsy, formidable force as a painter on the New York scene.
(11) When the action on the pitch finally started, a swashbuckling France took the game to Romania but failed to puncture their gutsy defence before half-time as the crowd began again to get edgy.
(12) Klaus Toppmöller's gutsy and in places gifted Bayer side never surrendered the belief that they could still stand the game on its head.
(13) Along with three other gutsy gastronomes, I am here to taste the results.
(14) Amazon's gutsy phone fails to ignite - CNET Jessica Dolcourt was less than impressed right from the off: What doesn't work is the premium price ($200 on-contract, $650 off; there is no pricing yet for the UK or Australia), the so-so performance, and the slightly sub-prime specs.
(15) These new documents show there is no doubt that Obama['s] White House was intensely interested in this film that was set to portray President Obama as 'gutsy'."
(16) It was an extraordinarily exciting, brave and gutsy recording (as I remember from the shock waves it caused among my school friends when we first heard it).
(17) Terry is captaining Chelsea week in, week out, with no obvious impact on his ability to put in the crunching tackles and well-aimed headers, plus the gutsy leadership on the pitch he is rightly renowned for.
(18) I was concentrating on Dalgliesh, and also by this point had Kate Miskin [Dalgliesh's sidekick], who's very like Cordelia – a gutsy girl from a deprived background.
(19) Bushnell was gutsy enough to disclose that even we serious, accomplished, feminist women spend a lot of time, when we are alone with our female friends, telling stories centred on the men with whom we are romantically entangled, exploring the quality of the love and attraction, the romance and the sex.
(20) 12.17am GMT Red Sox 1 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st Jonny Gomes is next, and he's stunned into submission on a full count curveball, which is kind of a gutsy call but it gets strike three.