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Literary notes about dicey (AI summary)

The term "dicey" appears with a dual life in literature, functioning both as a common adjective connoting risk or uncertainty and as a proper name linked to notable characters and legal scholarship. In several narratives, it is used to describe precarious situations or ventures—evoking images of risk and unpredictability ([1], [2], [3], [4]). At the same time, "Dicey" serves as a distinctive personal identifier, often attached to characters who embody authority or endearment, such as in familial or descriptive roles ([5], [6], [7]). Moreover, the name is intrinsically connected with legal theory through the influential work of A. V. Dicey, whose ideas on the constitution and public opinion have been widely quoted and discussed in academic texts ([8], [9], [10]).
  1. Dabbling in interest-rate futures was not for those with a dicey heart.
    — from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover
  2. No, except for games programs and very cheap enhancements of existing business programs like Lotus 1-2-3, the paperback concept seemed dicey.
    — from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman
  3. We could be looking at some dicey press."
    — from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover
  4. Even now this remains a rather dicey question.
    — from The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
  5. In another moment Dicey was on her knees with her arms about her.
    — from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson
  6. Aunt Dicey was overseeing the making of a huge kettle of soft soap.
    — from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley
  7. "How's our little girl, Dicey?" were his first words.
    — from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson
  8. x. 39-48, and Dicey's Law of the Constitution , p. 50.
    — from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
  9. ; Dicey, Lectures on the Relation of Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century , 1905.
    — from Ethics by John Dewey
  10. Dicey treats the whole doctrine of the rights of liberty in the section "The Rule of Law.
    — from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens by Georg Jellinek

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