chancey

And the 'chancey' fellow skims the cream of things every time.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

I don't know about Hannah -- single women her age are kind of chancey -- but I do know

Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

However, Councillor Stuart McIvor, chairman of the Lothian Valuation Joint Board, said he thought the MoD's case had been "chancey".

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Despite the stiff price and chancey prospects (tickets were to be randomly distributed), customers in Kansas City jammed into post offices to buy money orders — 15,000 in one day.

The Tour, The Money, The Magic 2009

So I suspect that there will be a strong effort to agree on such matters, for instance, as the Social Security earnings limit, that looks like they are going to be able to work that out; perhaps a prescription drug benefit, that one is chancey, but there seems to be an effort in that direction.

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But all I could think was how bloody chancey this trade was getting, it could have been me down there lying in all that hideous mess, with Ferris getting on the radio, Wing broken, or whatever phrase he'd use for immediate and urgent speech-code transmission to Norfolk and by direct private phone to Egerton's bedside at one in the morning.

The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

'So it's a verra chancey way of putting a man down.

The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971

The times Ruth had been of aid to him were, as he said, "just chancey."

Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Alice B. Emerson

So Mr. Phinney decided that waiting was chancey, and set out alone.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Say, you're a chancey bird, Swan, yelling from the brush like that.

Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905