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Dangerous source of infestation, briefly substandard?
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parlous
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WordNet
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adj. fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery" [syn: perilous ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., late Middle English contraction of perilous .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN state ▪ The mill was relegated to storage for many years, and by the 1960s was in a somewhat parlous state . ▪ But it still didn't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on the parlous state of contemporary kits. ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Attended with peril; dangerous; risky. 2 dire, terrible, appalling. 3 (context obsolete English) Dangerously clever or cunning. adv. (context archaic English) Very, extremely.
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