riskily

comparative more riskily · superlative most riskily

1. In a risky or rather perilous manner.

   [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

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   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

   Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously