dicier

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
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