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Giuliani told a Woodstock rally that a Martin victory would go a long way toward giving Democrats what he called a dangerous free hand in the Senate; he called on Republican voters to get out and vote to prevent that.

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  1. adjective Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
  2. adjective Being able or likely to do harm.

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  • Finds difficulty in getting his Reich's Pleadings printed;-- dangerous, everywhere in those Southern Parts, to print anything whatever that is not Austrian: so that Plotho, at length, gets printers to himself, and sets up a Printing-Press in his own house at Regensburg. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • I must say that I suspected as much but hoped that not even you would be foolish enough to do anything so stupid--dangerous, even.
  • Giuliani told a Woodstock rally that a Martin victory would go a long way toward giving Democrats what he called a dangerous free hand in the Senate; he called on Republican voters to get out and vote to prevent that. —  11Alive.com | Atlanta Video News
  • Germany's finance minister told AFP in an interview that cutting interest rates too low in an effort to counter the global recession could create what he called a dangerous "growth bubble." —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Father de Souza said Father Neuhaus was a wise friend and trustworthy guide for Christians in the public square, which he called a dangerous and forbidding place where those who wish to follow Christ find great travails and manifold tasks. —  CNS latest top stories
 

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  1. from Middle English daungerous, dangerus, from Old French dangeros, dangerous, dongerous, dangereus, donjereus, French dangereux, from danger, danger, + -eux, English -ous.
 

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/ˈdeɪndʒərəs/
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