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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Suggestive of or bordering on indelicacy or impropriety.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An obsolete spelling of risk.
  2. Audacious; on the edge of indecency; of doubtful morality; intentionally suggestive of impropriety.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French risqué, from risquer ("to risk") (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from past participle of risquer, to risk, from risque, risk; see risk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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