PARLOUS

parlous

Adjective

  1. Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.
    The situation became parlous when the weather made resupply impossible.
  2. Dire, terrible, appalling.
    ''Those manning the facility were in a parlous state.
  3. Dangerously clever or cunning.

Adverb

  1. Very, extremely.


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