Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: It's all looking a bit dicey in the middle east at the moment.

Modifying Another Word

• very: His post operation period has been very dicey requiring lots of care.

• rather: They had apparently taken in some rather dicey ladders.

• little: On top of Exmoor, the snow was two or three inches deep and the road conditions were a little dicey in places.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Now, with things looking ever more dicey on the global front, there seem to be ever more ranters prepared to suspend reality.

• get: I usually travel alone and, as a woman, it has sometimes gotten dicey.

Modifies a noun

• business: Keeping together in the Move is often a dicey business.

• race: Posted 4-Aug-2006 Fri 15:12 ] View Near Messages 3.15 is a dicey race.

• proposition: Tho it can be relatively simple to establish a biotech company, creating a nexus of such start-ups is a much dicier proposition.

• moment: Luckily, after a few dicey moments Lil, riding Lizzie's bike, soon got the hang of having to steer.

• thing: Mark Boulton Thu 21st Apr 2005 at 7:10 pm Hanging any type element is a dicey thing at best.