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Unsafe   /ənsˈeɪf/   Listen
Unsafe

adjective
1.
Lacking in security or safety.  Synonym: insecure.  "An insecure future"  Antonym: secure.
2.
Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm.  Synonym: dangerous.  "A dangerous bridge" , "Unemployment reached dangerous proportions"  Antonym: safe.
3.
Not safe from attack.  Synonym: insecure.






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... royalists has been; and so they will ever be while they continue to form two separate interests. From the very first moment when these two bodies were worked upon separately, I told the Queen that, till they were united for the same object, the monarchy would be unsafe, and at the mercy of the Jacobins, who, from hatred to both parties, would overthrow it themselves to rule despotically over those whom they no longer respected or feared, but whom they hated, as considering them both equally ...
— The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete • Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe

... intended for foot-passengers only, occupies all the space save a carriage-way close to the houses encircling it. This large extent of pavement, well provided with benches, and protected from the incursion of carriages, which make almost every other part of Rome more or less unsafe for all save the most wide-awake passengers, renders the Piazza Navona a playground specially adapted for nurses and their charges, who may generally be seen occupying it in considerable numbers. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... plowing straw under as a manure is unsafe, when used in any large quantity per acre. It rots slowly, and while lying in the bottom of the furrow it cuts off the rise of water from the subsoil which is a reservoir of ...
— Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch. He might have expatiated on this suggestive theme at much greater length, but that it occurred to him to ask ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... of a distinguished and enterprising individual known to every British juvenile as Dick Turpin - a person who won imperishable renown, and the undying affection of the small Briton of to-day, by making it unsafe along here for stage-coaches and travellers indiscreet enough to ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens


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