riskily
Adverb

riskily

  1. In a risky or rather perilous manner.
    Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously
    • 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], OCLC 654408264 ↗, pages 90–91 ↗:
      [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
    • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, OCLC 2883166 ↗, page 522 ↗:
      They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]



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