Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to chance or uncertainty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of chances or accidents; hazardous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Hazardous.
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- adjective obsolete
hazardous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
Etymologies
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Examples
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Venturi scolded Els for a chanceful shot that went into the water on 13 and led to a triple bogey.
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None the less, his brain was busy with the chanceful possibilities.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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Hours of all the chanceful fortunes of a soldier's life, in hill-wars and desert raids, passed in memory through his thoughts now where he was stretched; looking dreamily through the film of his smoke at the city of tents, and the reclining forms of camels, and the tall, white slowly moving shapes of the lawless marauders of the sand plains.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Looking back upon it in after-years in the light of a chanceful life, he determined, with the characteristic philosophy of his profession, that it must have been fate.
Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869
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Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed catch finished stamped crypts, chanceful catacombs, forsaken cathedrals, and modify to the hunch of the most secretive jump on earth, Langdon and Vetra module study a 400-year-old dawdle of ancient symbols that evaluation the Vatican's exclusive wish for survival.
www.awesomeblogs.com 2009
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My student meet advisable 'Red Yeast Rice' tablets for cholesterin curb because my tests showed that the Zorcor I was attractive had upraised my liver enzymes to a chanceful level.
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For chanceful and perverted individualist Kenneth (Andrew Lee Potts), chronicle at the infirmary where he entireness is a program of long torments from a assemble of enterprising scrutiny students.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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So chanceful that if I continuing attractive Zorcor, it could defeat my liver.
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A someone fresh said that what's scary most clowns is that beneath that make-up lies the most chanceful ogre of all: man.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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Blinders points out, it's chanceful and insane that we ease hit equid and carriages streaming alongside horseless carriages for the recreation of tourists who couldn't intend tickets to
Planet Malaysia 2009
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