Sentence examples for rather dicey from inspiring English sources

"It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.

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.

After passing out from Sandhurst, however, he concluded that journalism was a rather "dicey" choice, and opted to become a career officer.

The governor's race there has a dandy ethics controversy that began with charges that a businessman with a rather dicey background gave Gov. Bob McDonnell $15,000 to pay for the catering at his daughter's wedding.

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.

These seemed more hand-crafted and sinister though, the result of bowling malevolence rather than dicey pitches.

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.

Many of the Catskills tales are seen from the point of view of children coming of age savoring the freedom to roam and experiment in pastoral safety rather than the dicey streets of New York.

Along with other executives, he spent Saturday night in the Jamaica headquarters rather than risk a dicey commute.

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.

She sustains those relationships through social media and, rather than leave teenagers unguided about dicey health matters, she continues sending them links to appropriate Web sites.