parlous

/ˈpɑːləs/adj

High School

1

Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.

2

Appalling, dire, terrible.

3

Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.

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dangerous dangersome hazardous jeopardous parlous periculous perilous precarious risky unsafe wicked

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