Parlous in a sentence as an adjective

I'd be unsurprised if this wasn't the only project in a parlous state.

It's coming from a parlous minimum wage and no safety net.

So while I think the us educational system is in a parlous state, it has some strengths as well.

That's without even considering the parlous state of npm and its libraries.

Given the parlous state of more liberal economies, perhaps the Japanese and the Germans have a point.

It speaks volumes about the parlous state of the New Yorker that citing sources and using logic is considered bad behaviour.

Because then the judge is going to say, "You, Epiphyte, owe this poor aggrieved minority shareholder $x. But as I look at the parlous state of the corporation's finances I see that there's no way for you to raise that kind of money.

It seems to me that the parlous state of the US healthcare system is in fact a perfect demonstration of the dangers of a completely free marketI... I just... wow.

An even better prospect given the parlous state of the Republican party would be to simply drive a wedge into it after this election, subvert the least powerful side.

"It seems to me that the parlous semi-free market state of the US healthcare system is in fact a perfect demonstration of the dangers we'd encounter if we moved to a completely free market.

> The fact that Reading is willing to sign a PhD with basically no research with one publicationSomething tells me that the parlous state of higher education funding in the UK has a lot to do with this.

But no, it's more important to get those weapons "just right".Or to look at it another way, if BB10 is in such a parlous state that after all these delays it still cannot be shipped then there are huge, enormous problems with the technical competency inside RIM.

> The Germans were really keen on aerodynamics for surface vehicles in the 30sFor good reason; _Wages of Destruction_ covers repeatedly how concerned the German government and corporations were about how much fuel Germany needed to import, which made the country more vulnerable and exacerbated their parlous foreign-exchange/currency situation.

With that change in demographics came a cultural swing toward pacifism, a relaxing of the usually parlous baboon hierarchy, and a willingness to use affection and mutual grooming rather than threats, swipes and bites to foster a patriotic spirit.> Remarkably, the Forest Troop has maintained its genial style over two decades, even though the male survivors of the epidemic have since died or disappeared and been replaced by males from the outside.

Given the ecosystem around it and the reportedly parlous state of the DF codebase, I would guess, somewhat along the lines of Minecraft, what would happen upon open-sourcing is that people would start big cleanups and APIfying, and he would have little choice but to either accept PRs en masse or quickly be left in the dust with an obsolete codebase while everyone begins using a version forked from whenever he balked at a re-architecting patch.

Parlous definitions

adjective

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"

See also: perilous precarious touch-and-go