dicey

Adjective

dicey (comparative dicier, superlative diciest)

1. Fraught with danger.
2. Of uncertain, risky outcome.
   • This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions.2009 June 17, Blessing-Miles Tendi, “Tsvangirai's dicey strategy”, in The Guardian
   • Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, editors, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World, page 161
3. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
   • As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, “The Witness Man”, in Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, page 95
   • If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social, page xv