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adjective

Dangerous adj.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. "Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous." "It is dangerous to assert a negative."

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. "If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods."

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. (Colloq.)

Hard to suit; difficult to please. (Obs.) "My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous."

Reserved; not affable. (Obs.) "Of his speech dangerous."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dangerous" Quotes from Famous Books

... dust of the seventeen miles, at a double quick and yelling, the crimson battle flags slanting forward, in swung the Light Division! D. R. Jones rallied. Decimated, out-worn, but dangerous, the aiding regiments from the left did well. The grey guns worked with a certain swift and steadfast grimness. From all the ridges of the Antietam the blue cannon thundered, thundered. Blue and grey, the musketry rolled. Sound rose into terrific volume, ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... goes to Kensington to-morrow, and not abroad. We hear of great quarrels between Marshal Wade and Duc d'Aremberg. The French King is at Valenciennes with Monsieur de Noailles, who is now looked upon as first minister. He is the least dangerous for us of all. It is affirmed that Cardinal Tencin is disgraced, who was the very worst for us. If he is, we shall at least have no invasion this summer. Successors of ministers seldom take up the schemes of their predecessors; especially such ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... unpopular with the crowd. It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought. Indeed, so little do ordinary people understand what thought really is, that they seem to imagine that, when they have said that a theory is dangerous, they have pronounced its condemnation, whereas it is only such theories that have any true intellectual value. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called ...

— Intentions • Oscar Wilde

... was in a dangerous and critical condition for about twenty-one years, accordin' to his own account. I been seein' him durin' that time on a average of four times a day, and last night when I seen him in his coffin it was the first time the ...

— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice

... you to say that. You would have me appear ungrateful when I certainly am not. Ach, how he is driving! Do you think it dangerous?" she cried, as the hack gave two or three wild lurches, throwing him into the corner, and the girl half ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

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