Adjective

(en-adj)

Full of danger.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods

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

Forby. Bartlett.

(lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.

*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

*:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .

(lb) Reserved; not affable.

*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

*:Of his speech dangerous

Adjective

(er)

Responsible for a dishonest act.

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(lb) Judged to have committed a crime.

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Having a sense of guilt.

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Blameworthy.

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*:At twilight in the summereat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty —on the floor.