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English
Etymology
From risky + -ly.
Adverb
riskily (comparative more riskily, superlative most riskily)
- In a risky or rather perilous manner.
- Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously
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:he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
1920 November 9, D H Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522: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: [...]
Translations
in a risky or rather perilous manner
— see also dangerouslyReferences