risky

Etymology

risk + -y

adj

  1. Dangerous, involving risks.
    Investing in this start-up company could be risky.
  2. Misspelling of risqué.
    That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message. 2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc
    Have you no risky songs , no indecent ballads? 1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157
    Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it. 2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard

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