How To Use Chancy In A Sentence
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“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
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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.
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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.
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Glued soles are cheap to manufacture, but chancy to resole well.
Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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This far from human and Elven lands there are all manner of unchancy things prowling.
Tran Siberian
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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,
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You're an astrologist, Mr. Chancy, are you not?
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When the construct is killed, reconnecting my consciousness with my body is a very chancy business.
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He summoned the Guard, but, despite the carnage, he didn't even consider turning his unchancy guests out.
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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
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Investing on the Stock Exchange is a chancy business.
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The shades of evening were growing thicker around us as my conductor finished his long narrative with this moral — ‘Ye see, birkie, it is nae chancy thing to tak a stranger traveller for a guide, when you are in an uncouth land.’
Redgauntlet
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A boggle is a bogey, an unchancy spirit; he lives there.
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Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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Too far, and the terrain too rugged, the weather close in to the Rockies too chancy.
HIGH STAND
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So jump on the "chancy" Obama boat and pray it will stay afloat!
Heavy turnout reported, few problems seen
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There was great glory and triumph in this; but why had his grace come at so unchancy a moment?
Framley Parsonage
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Like cross-roads, bridges are unchancy places, balanced as they are earth to earth, between past and future - and therefore risky; but I didn't want to wade in the fast-moving depths below, no mater how natural.
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Kerian agreed, and she did not call upon the unchancy magic until they saw clear sky above them again.
The Lioness
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Publishers will not publish chancy, fat collections when they can publish a small number of readily marketable volumes.
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One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions.
The Revenge of Karl Marx
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The natural souring of unpasteurized milk is a chancy business.
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If you do pick up ‘free kittens’ offered from somewhere, which is a bit chancy, I've been advised never to pick the runt of the litter, as they are far more likely to have health problems than their more hardy littermates.
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Symbiosis Cooperation Marketing is trenchancy weapon of Chinese retail enterprise.
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Hence it is 'chancy' whether a particular individual will find a job.
Rezo.net
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Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast.
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What sort of unchancy firedrake do you take me for?
Kenny & the Dragon
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That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.
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But I'll tell you, it's been really kind of chancy at times.
CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008
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It cuts against the grain to be having aught to do with such unchancy things, but if Tomanâk is after being a good enough captain for you to be swearing loyalty to, then that's good enough for me.
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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
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Intervening on behalf of democracy is chancy enough.
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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
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And then the as boat set aff for North Berwick, an 'the tither lay whaur it was and watched the wanchancy thing on the brae-side.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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“There™s big curses and minor ones,” said the dwarven expert, “the curse of your mother-in-law and the curse of an unchancy god.”
The Lioness
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This is a good town for a book, but very unchancy.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Alexander Moldieward!" again cried the old "betheral," very loud, to some one on the top of the Dullarg Hill -- then in an ordinary voice, "come awa ', Saunders man, you and your mither, an' dinna keep them waitin '-- they're no chancy when they're keepit.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Don't take chancy shots, don't blast away at running deer 400 yards away, if you must use "BUCKSHOT" please be close and if you see poachers-TURN THEM IN!
Crippled Deer
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As a result, identification becomes a chancy thing even for the experts.
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The restoration to favour of forgotten books and authors is always a chancy business.
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J. K. Galbraith pointed out a long time ago that the smartest businesspeople abhor true competition - it's much too expensive and chancy - far better to monopolise the market for public services and pocket all the profits.
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My far-flung net of significant others helps me to find meaning and purpose in a random and chancy world, and I hope I reciprocate to some degree.
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So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then —
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The fungus doesn't kill the tree, it just reddens the wood, and what this means is that finding a good red myrtle is a very chancy business.
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The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions.
2009 January | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Economists recognize that estimating multiplier effects is a chancy business under the best of circumstances.
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And so the chancy element of happenings is central.
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If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.
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So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then —
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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`On the whole, I think I prefer something less chancy, though.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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The healing priest told her it would be chancy, with her being so tiny.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Nor had things ever needed to be up to time — time, whose bondslave she now was — but had gone as they listed, in a haphazard, chancy kind of way.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
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But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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a chancy appeal at best
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Some would call it chancy, precarious, very dangerous or whatever, but sometimes we walk through those doors and at best, have called it foolishness, of which we wouldn’t have had the really good time we did, should we have elected to always close those doors …
Common sense advice on how to stay safe in Mexico.
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But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.
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It brought home to me what I already knew - that going tench fishing with only one or two bait options could be a chancy business.
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Lord save us a '! but it's an unco life to be a sailor -- a cauld, wanchancy life.
Merry Men
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Babies and the chancy life of a musician do not exactly go together.
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I cannot but think that there is no safety in having such unchancy creatures about ane.
The Monastery
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Symbiosis Cooperation Marketing is trenchancy weapon of Chinese retail enterprise.
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That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
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The measures that may dampen demand are secondary and chancy.
Economics
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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
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It should be said that even with the dilution of the Japanese forces it was still a very chancy thing that the Americans prevailed so successfully.
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Investing on the Stock Exchange is a chancy business.
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Accepting Loyal Achates at his word chancy I know I must say that I find it odd that he, suffering with a genetic disorder which supposedly claims its victims lives at an early age, is alive at the age of 24 presumably without any medical intervention.
“Give me liberty or give me social justice” revisited
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In the Baron's own words, 'The matter did not coincide with the feelings of the commons of Bradwardine, Mr. Waverley; and the tenants were slack and repugnant in payment of their mails and duties; and when my kinsman came to the village wi' the new factor, Mr. James Howie, to lift the rents, some wanchancy person
Waverley — Volume 2
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‘That's clumsy, chancy and too dangerous for Bannon to try,’ Cole said flatly, ‘my employer isn't that stupid.’
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But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.
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Besides, transporting animals on ocean voyages is a chancy proposition full of danger for the animals and those assigned to care for them.
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It was chancy, but even Brenda knew that taking risks was all part of the fun of living one's life.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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This was unchancy ground and Jim was relieved they were approaching the Adelaide turning where the red-brick shops and naphtha flares would prove a civilizing force.
At Swim, Two Boys
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It is extremely chancy, moreover, to anticipate the future of art architecturally, or to presuppose that modern art will continue to be shaped principally by painting and sculpture, albeit on a larger scale.
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He was angry, bitterly angry, with "swats" and "muggers" who spent their whole time grinding for these foolish chancy examinations.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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North Berwick, an 'the tither lay whaur it was and watched the wanchancy thing on the braeside.
David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
