(a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
(a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
(a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
(a.) Reserved; not affable.
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.
Dicey
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(2) According to a PBS Frontline documentary last week, even the NSA’s top attorneys found the warrantless domestic surveillance regimen a dicey legal call, although they ultimately approved it.
(3) Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition.
(4) Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be a dicey proposition: every year, the industry consumes millions of tons of fuel and produces almost a billion tons of sewage.
(5) The dynamics of speaking at a convention are a little dicey.” Trump to meet with NRA over barring guns for those on terrorism watch lists Read more The NRA’s big campaign blitz has been partly fueled by an aggressive fundraising operation which in recent years has targeted mega-donors.
(6) The proposed move would leave the current company’s most valuable joint ventures in a separate holding company and split them from Yahoo’s dicey advertising businesses.
(7) Lean times in store for new Sainsbury's boss So, how dicey is the hospital pass about to be received by Mike Coupe, the Sainsbury's commercial director who will succeed Justin King as chief executive next month?
(8) Journalists who covered war and conflict over the past few decades can recall instances in which they talked their way out of dicey situations by arguing that if militants killed or kidnapped them there would be no one to tell their story.
(9) Three points from a dicey assignment at Southampton means a first title in 24 years is a fantasy with an increasing chance of becoming reality.
(10) Alan Greenspan has seen more than a few dicey days on global markets in his time.
(11) He had some very dicey moments, including a very close shave in Lebanon in 1983 when a knife was held to his throat, and resolved to find a less traumatic career before it was too late ("There are very few happy, old news cameramen").
(12) In contrast, the great jurist AV Dicey (1835-1922) had proposed that such votes were, in essence, conservative devices that enabled the voters to restrain the follies of the political class.
(13) When the producers of the Harry Potter franchise split Deathly Hallows down the middle in 2010 (that's 3.5 horcruxes a film, stats fans) it still felt like a dicey manoeuvre.
(14) Fear-mongers might say the neighbourhood is dicey, but Lavapiés is really a lively slice of authentic Madrid.
(15) But the rule of law is what Conservatives in particular were brought up to believe in: a bit of the imperial history ( Magna Carta , Blackstone , Dicey , etc) for which they display such enthusiasm.
(16) Prosecutors said DuPont was unwilling to sell its method to China, so it was stolen and sent to a company called Pangang Group Co Ltd, according to testimony during the diplomatically dicey proceedings.
(17) "It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.
(18) The referendum is the people’s veto,” Dicey declared.
(19) It’s been billed as a bit of a return to form for the actor, who has made some dicey choices of late, from The Expendables 3 and Paranoia to Cowboys & Aliens – but it still doesn’t match his all-time greatest performances.
(20) Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production.