parlous Definition

precarious, perilous, dangerous, unsafe, touch-and-go, dismal, lamentable, pitiful, deplorable, pathetic, tenuous, fragile, unfortunate, difficult, regrettable, critical, dire, shambolic, woeful, bleak, dreadful, abysmal, calamitous, wretched, disastrous, untenable, gloomy, pitiable, grim, disgraceful, unenviable, unsustainable, problematical, miserable, uncertain, faltering, straitened, appalling, moribund, foundering, depressing, unfashionable, farcical, rudderless, decrepit, rosy, hopeless, wobbly, niggardly, churlish, abject, peculiar, dilapidated, buoyant, threadbare, risible, unpropitious, purblind, enfeebled, shaky, damning, patchy, dour, unpalatable, profligate, sclerotic, rotten, ailing, beleaguered, inept, unedifying, apposite, uncompetitive, dodgy, flourishing, underfunded, unreformed, unescapable, sickly, unarguable, galling, desperate, atrocious, ungovernable, unsatisfactory, underinvestment, murky, benighted, comatose, pusillanimous, dysfunctional, unpromising, plighted, unforthcoming, enviable, insolvent, perturbing, ropey, undiversified, troubled,