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comparative more unchancy, superlative most unchancy
(chiefly Scotland) Unfortunate, unlucky. examples
(chiefly Scotland) Dangerous, unsafe. quotations examples
the Kinraddies sat them quiet and decent and peaceable in their castle, and heeded never a fig the arguings of folk, for wars were unchancy things.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song