chancy

How To Use chancy In A Sentence

• “Indeed, Robin, I’ll be better advised before I gie it back to you; it is a wanchancy weapon in a Highlandman’s hand, and I am thinking you will be about some harns-breaking.” Chronicles of the Canongate
• You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
• All of us should therefore operate today with some notion of very probably reaching much larger audiences than any we could conceive of even a decade ago, although the chances of retaining that audience are by the same token quite chancy.
• Glued soles are cheap to manufacture, but chancy to resole well. Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
• This far from human and Elven lands there are all manner of unchancy things prowling. Tran Siberian
• His good old wife had gotten down her best "chancy," white with blue rimming, while the cloth on the table was as white as snow, and the floor spotlessly neat with its heavy sprinkling of white sand. The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
• You're an astrologist, Mr. Chancy, are you not?
• When the construct is killed, reconnecting my consciousness with my body is a very chancy business.
• He summoned the Guard, but, despite the carnage, he didn't even consider turning his unchancy guests out.
• Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o 'the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better. Redgauntlet