The phrase "a rather dicey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is risky, uncertain, or precarious.
Example: "Investing in that startup seems a rather dicey decision given its lack of a solid business plan."
Alternatives: "a rather risky" or "a rather precarious".
As noted above, the case where you have two brackets, each with an even number of teams, in a packet-submission tournament can get rather dicey.
All we have to hope now is that a massive, distracting scandal that potentially implicates the Prime Minister in some rather dicey conduct doesn't derail the debate again.
"It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.
When he turns from greening Mrs. Donaldson to shielding Mrs. Forbes — adoring mother of handsome, narcissistic Graham; disapproving new mother-in-law of "plainish," capable Betty — things become a bit less kinky (for a while) and rather more dicey.
It takes a rather squinty legal interpretation to see that Brad Estabrooke's Breuckelen Distilling Company could hold a farm distillery license on a dicey commercial alley under the Gowanus Expressway.
These seemed more hand-crafted and sinister though, the result of bowling malevolence rather than dicey pitches.
For nature is not a static world of unswerving law but rather a dynamic and dicey world of evolved and continually evolving habits that directly exhibit considerable spontaneity.
Even though the Mets will not leave a decision to the player, they avoided a potentially dicey situation by putting Wright on the disabled list immediately, rather than delaying the move.
Despite President Bush's support, several measures to reform the nation's immigration policies failed in Congress last year it's a dicey issue that follows geographic, rather that party, politics.
