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Etymology
Etymology tree English risky Middle English -ly English -ly English riskily From risky + -ly.
Meanings
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In a risky or rather perilous manner.
They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]
1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522:[T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most riskily | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more riskily | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |