riskily

From risky +‎ -ly.

riskily (comparative more riskily, superlative most riskily)

1. In a risky or rather perilous manner.

   Synonyms: dangerously, hazardously

   • 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:

     [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]

   • 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:

     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: [...]

• “riskily”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.