Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an insecure manner; without security or safety.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an insecure manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an insecure manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a manner involving risk
  • adverb in a tentative and self-conscious manner

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Examples

  • "Automatically find server and port" and "Warn before sending password insecurely" are checked

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • Likewise, a pen test can report on secure applications deployed insecurely which is not visible to static analysis.

    The Web Security Mailing List (WASC) contact@webappsec.org 2010

  • Likewise, a pen test can report on secure applications deployed insecurely which is not visible to static analysis.

    The Web Security Mailing List (WASC) contact@webappsec.org 2010

  • Likewise, a pen test can report on secure applications deployed insecurely which is not visible to static analysis.

    The Web Security Mailing List (WASC) contact@webappsec.org 2010

  • Likewise, a pen test can report on secure applications deployed insecurely which is not visible to static analysis.

    The Web Security Mailing List (WASC) contact@webappsec.org 2010

  • All worked well, but there came a time when he fastened the pine-knot insecurely.

    The Hunger Cry 2010

  • A hundred feet of broken ledges and insecurely heaped rocks were between it and the earth, and because of the rocks, which might be displaced by the touch of hand or foot, but one man climbed at a time.

    THE SUNLANDERS 2010

  • They climbed out of the smelting town, where eyrie houses perched insecurely on a precipitous landscape.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • They are another sports phenomenon that fatigues as much as it fascinates, that pummels audiences with an avalanche of hype, exposure and overbaked TV commercials, like the Nike one in which Mr. James plays "Miami Vice" with a grizzly Don Johnson and insecurely asks his public, "What should I do?"

    If Only the Entire Sports World Were as Wacky Jason Gay 2010

  • Canadian psychologist Tracey Waskowic surveyed seventy-seven widows and widowers ranging in age from forty-one to ninety-seven and found that securely attached people were less angry, less socially isolated, and less prone to guilt, despair, and rumination which in itself is thought to perpetuate depressed moods than insecurely attached people.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

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