See chancy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 244:",
"text": "In winter steam contributes a fairly high proportion of its tractive effort, say 15 per cent, to heating the train. Diesels have at the moment separate oil-fired boilers which are somewhat chancy affairs, and only electric locomotives grab unlimited power for heating which does not affect their punctuality.",
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"word": "hasardeux"
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"sense": "uncertain",
"word": "incierto"
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"Subject to chance; random."
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"word": "aléatoire"
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"ref": "1919, Irvin S. Cobb, The Life of the Party, page 49:",
"text": "His haggard gaze swept this way and that, seeking possible succour where reason told him there could be no succour; and then as his vision pieced together this outjutting architectural feature and that into a coherent picture of his immediate surroundings he knew where he was. The one bit of chancy luck in a sequence of direful catastrophes had brought him here[Pg 49] to this very spot. Why, this must be West Ninth Street; it had to be, it was—oh joy, it was!.",
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"Lucky; bringing good luck."
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"(dated, colloquial) Lucky; bringing good luck."
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"word": "incierto"
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"sense": "uncertain",
"word": "arriesgado"
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"word": "aléatoire"
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"sense": "subject to chance",
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"word": "chancy"
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