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- adverb In a
risky orrather perilous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a dangerously risky manner
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Examples
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Being a writer is like being one of those riskily overbred pedigreed dogs — a French bulldog, for instance — poorly suited for survival despite their very special attributes.
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Being a writer is like being one of those riskily overbred pedigreed dogs — a French bulldog, for instance — poorly suited for survival despite their very special attributes.
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The home-improvement chain withdrew its spots after the Florida Family Association, a conservative group, protested that the program was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
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In an email message sent to advertisers of the "All-American Muslim" show, the FFA said that the show was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
Kashif N. Chaudhry: Lowe's: 'Let's Build A Prejudiced America?' Kashif N. Chaudhry 2011
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In an email message sent to advertisers of the "All-American Muslim" show, the FFA said that the show was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
Kashif N. Chaudhry: Lowe's: 'Let's Build A Prejudiced America?' Kashif N. Chaudhry 2011
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Their objection to the show is as follows, taken directly from their website: "TLC's 'All-American Muslim' is propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda."
Christian Piatt: All-American Muslims, Meet Un-Christ-Like Christians Christian Piatt 2011
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Being a writer is like being one of those riskily overbred pedigreed dogs — a French bulldog, for instance — poorly suited for survival despite their very special attributes.
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Being a writer is like being one of those riskily overbred pedigreed dogs — a French bulldog, for instance — poorly suited for survival despite their very special attributes.
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Over two sets in which he visibly unwound from a nervous start, Cullum rattled through originals, pop covers and standards, with a yearning account of Radiohead's High And Dry, and Fran Landesman's classic Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – riskily but successfully joining intimate balladry to beatboxing – the highlights.
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In an email message sent to advertisers of the "All-American Muslim" show, the FFA said that the show was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
Kashif N. Chaudhry: Lowe's: 'Let's Build A Prejudiced America?' Kashif N. Chaudhry 2011
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