Modifies a noun

• business: Buying a vintage soprano can sometimes be a somewhat chancy business.

• thing: It's one o ' them chancy things as fools thrive on. ' "

• causation: In order to accommodate chancy causation, Lewis ( 1986c ) defines a more general notion of causal dependence in terms of chancy counterfactuals.

• affair: Yet what a chancy affair it was, as John McLean pointed out at the recent Symposium in Manchester.

Modifying Another Word

• too: To predict post-election results and effects is too chancy a business for us.