Used in a Sentence

dangerously

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dangerously.

Editorial note

Your friends might be nice people who mean well and love their pets, but they are dangerously uneducated in this matter.

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Quick take

In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dangerously gathered in one view.

adverb

In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dangerously.

Example sentences

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Your friends might be nice people who mean well and love their pets, but they are dangerously uneducated in this matter.

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The battery compartment in the pen is shoddily made so that the spring often touches the metal body shorts out and makes the pen dangerously hot.

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I was coming dangerously close to conflating the fact of a sequence being uncountable with the proof that the sequence is uncountable being constructive.

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People around you will make assertions about objective reality that are beyond any reasonable doubt incorrect, sometimes dangerously so.

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The difference between those previous eras and now is that our fiction may have become dangerously vivid.

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Is it better to lower our standards, resulting in shoddy and sometimes dangerously bad work, or to leave things undone?

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Dependence on sensors that would provide dangerously misleading readings in precisely the most dangerous situation.

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That's the proof necessary to show whether workers are dangerously exhausted, abused by supervisors, etc.

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Some of the hosts on that list, however, are indeed using dangerously outdated PHP versions.

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To propose that no smart people apply their knowledge to a particular end is idealistic and may leave us dangerously exposed.

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What people call British-American philosophy today then is dangerously out of step with itself.

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They drive dangerously on the road here and now it seems like everyone else is too (especially the tour bus companies and private sanitation services).

Quote examples

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Also, this line is dangerously incorrect: "A message becomes offensive only when its sender said it with the intention to be offensive." If you've ever taken respectful workplace training in the US, you've likely learned the difference between intent and impact.

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Also note that atlasobscura is a site which tries hard to make a content which is dangerously close to the blogspam (the supposed topic of the site is still according to their about page "the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places " and according to their tags " Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dangerously in a sentence?

Your friends might be nice people who mean well and love their pets, but they are dangerously uneducated in this matter.

What does dangerously mean?

In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.

What part of speech is dangerously?

dangerously is commonly used as adverb.