risksome

English

Etymology

From risk +‎ -some.

Adjective

risksome (comparative more risksome, superlative most risksome)

1. Characterised or marked by risk; risky
   • 1866, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 33, page 174:

     The police are efficient, and the garrote not an institution, else it would be a risksome venture to mount these silent, dark stairways, with no other guide than the balusters and the recollection of the landing stages passed.

   • 1872, Sibella Jones, The wet blanket:

     “ […] I feel I'm getting an old man now; and my business is very risksome, when the waves are high, and the wind blows hard, and only a cockleshell of a boat between me and eternity; so we're right to lay something by for you, in case ill should come to me.”

   • 1876, Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, page 55:

     We don't charge this class with a guilty intention of evading the law or the regulation of the mine, but with undue impatience in their hurry to get through with their work, jumping at risksome advantages that too often prove fatal in the end.

   • 1885, George Alfred Henty, True to the Old Flag:

     Upon leaving headquarters Peter joined his friends. "It's a risksome business," he went on, after informing them of the instructions he had received. "But I don't know as it is much more risksome than stopping here. […] "

   • 1892, The Francisan Tertiary, volume 2, page 553:

     It was still the heroic age of commerce, and the marches of these merchants-in-arms, escorting their packages to the fairs of Europe, had a military and risksome look, which we no longer deem in keeping with matter of such peaceful kind.

   • 1919, Papers by Command, volume 20, page 254:

     […] inasmuch as the European-managed banks or the old class of moneylenders were generally averse to advance money to Swadeshi concerns except on the most approved securities or risksome conditions, he set himself, shortly after his return from England, to his promotion of his scheme to Indian banks.

   • 1969, Jan Vlachos Westcott, The White Rose, page 268:

     Charles said, "You shall have ships. The Seigneur de Gruthuyse shall arrange it." But he was thoughtful. Was it possible for Edward to succeed? Was the venture too risksome? […]

   • 2015, Jeremiah Curtin, Seneca Indian Myths:

     At the first jump he went over the hill, then he said to himself, “This is too risksome; that man is dangerous.”