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Meaning risky meaning

What does risky mean?
Definitions in simple English

risky

If something is risky, it is dangerous and involves risk. Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

risky

(= hazardous, wild) involving risk or danger skydiving is a hazardous sport extremely risky going out in the tide and fog a wild financial scheme (= bad, high-risk, speculative) not financially safe or secure a bad investment high risk investments anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky speculative business enterprises

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Simple sentences

Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.
I don't want to do anything risky.
Would you like to take part in this risky experiment?
It's too risky.
This seems risky.
Taking slaves from Africa to the United States was very risky.
That is quite a risky job.
That's quite a risky job.
Forget it. It's too risky.
He underwent a risky operation.
That's too risky.
It is too risky.
It's a risky proposition.
This is risky and dangerous.
Tom said it was too risky to go there alone.
Isn't that risky?
It's very risky.
That was risky.

Movie subtitles

There's not a lot of furniture, so there's plenty of room to slip and slide around in our socks like in Risky Business.
It is a risky business, this skating.
Marrying any man is risky.
And it's risky and more.
Everything is risky!
It's risky, though, Liz.
Wasn't that a little risky?
I guess it was kind of risky.
It's too risky now.
You shouldn't have come, it's too risky.
Of course, it's risky, but it's our only hope.
It still sounds very risky. Very risky.
I'm not staying here, it's too risky.
That's too risky.
Also, for the same reason, it would be risky to use ground-based fire on the reentry capsules.
You know it's risky.
Too risky!
Too risky.
I think it's risky. - Want to rescue him?
It's too risky for a white lady, Miss Julie.
It's hard work and it's risky work. It's work we'll rot in chains for one day.
It's risky. Because I love Christine.
It's confounded risky, but we got to face it.
Well, it's getting to be too risky.
It might be impossible because I'm not the right man, or because it is, well. too risky.
It's a risky business, but they get paid a lot of money to take that risk. Keep moving, keep moving.
I mean, it's too risky, too dangerous.
I think it's risky.
Risky. but good!
It's risky to have it on display like that.
But it is very risky.
For my part, I'd like to see her part away, but it's too risky.
It's not risky at all!
It's risky keeping money on you. It's terrible to lose money you've worked so hard for.
It's a very risky scene.
Isn't that a bit risky?

News and current affairs

Changing constitutions is always a risky business.
The dollar will fall and US long-term interest rates will rise, but only when traders on Wall Street and elsewhere decide that holding dollars and long-term US bonds is more risky in the short run.
This is risky speculation.
With deposit insurance, clients who no longer risk losing their money have no incentive to monitor their bank, while banks, with no one watching, have incentives to invest in excessively risky projects.
Consider a bank that has invested in risky projects and finds itself in trouble.
If the current-account balance is assessed together with the fiscal position, it becomes possible to draw conclusions about risky debt trends within the private sector.
No one predicted this boom, so predicting its end is risky.
This prescription worked for a time in a few countries, but was risky, as Argentina was to show.
In a world of volatile exchange rates, pegging a currency to one like the dollar is highly risky.
A single-minded focus on inflation - without a concern for unemployment or growth - is risky.
The al-Saud have procrastinated so long that every choice they now face is risky.
Mortgage-backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.
But their profitability depended on two shaky foundations: a permanent fall in long-term risky real interest rates, and permanent optimism about real estate as an asset class.
Businesses can have blind spots, too - and they can be equally costly, causing companies to overinvest in risky ventures or fail to take advantage of emerging opportunities.
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
It is always risky to speculate about hidden motives; nevertheless, systematic disparagement of Israeli society and culture undoubtedly encourages the sense that anti-Semitism, too, is a permitted prejudice.
The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.
We can also add to these financial risks the massive problems of bond insurers that guaranteed many of the risky securitization products such as CDOs.
Moreover, the American public's willingness to become enmeshed in yet another risky military venture, when boosting homeland security could suffice, is dubious, at best.
Now Rowhani returns to the risky business of Iran's nuclear program, though this time as President.
It is certainly the case that today's super-low interest rates encourage investors to pour funds into risky assets.

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