parlous

How To Use parlous In A Sentence

• As boss of these papers, such parlous statistics should be concentrating his mind wonderfully.
• It is one of a number of tax increases devised to remedy France's parlous budgetary position. Times, Sunday Times
• a parlous journey on stormy seas
• Roger -- you are coming parlously close to trashing an entire genre, which I don't think you mean to do. Cheering the Home Team
• The manatee has been the subject of just 14, and academic neglect may be a vital factor in its currently parlous position. Meerkats, chimps and pandas: the cute and the furry attract scientists' attention and conservation funding
• England's situation is more parlous. Times, Sunday Times
• The death of Vial left his widow in parlous straits.
• For if the mind of a dog or chimpanzee contains no element which is immortal, the part of the human mind on which the claim to immortality can be based must be parlously small, since _ex hypothesi_ sensation, volition, desire and the simpler forms of intelligence are not immortal. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
• The club's position was too parlous and the chairman's appeal was basic. Times, Sunday Times
• How he behaved in her presence, he knew not; he was beyond self-criticism or conscious reflection; simply the engine of the commixed three liqueurs, with parlous fine thoughts, and a sense of steaming into the infinite. The Amazing Marriage — Complete