'parlous' in October: The Story of the Russian Revolution | Bookmarker

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(adjective) full of danger or uncertainty; precarious

But the country’s armed forces, albeit somewhat modernised since 1904, are still in a parlous state.

—p.32 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville

notable

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