perilously

perilous | American Dictionary

perilous
adjective
 fmlus/ˈper·ə·ləs/
dangerous

Examples of perilous

perilous
All the figures, with thick lips and wide, happy-go-lucky grins (wholly inappropriate to the perilous mission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
Moral achievement, perilous danger, and individual action, rather than the specific details of an expedition's instructions or successes, were thrust to centre stage.
It was an intellectually courageous but often perilous balancing act.
With the outbreak of war, crossing the road became newly perilous.
Moving cultures : the perilous problems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing society.
He rows out through perilous and stormy seas.
Even at this early stage in the century the perilous bear encounter had become a central part of the imaginative stock-in-trade.
This phenomenon is perilous, because the discrete solutions will 'look' correct and even display nice convergence as the meshes are refined.
Such conditions became especially perilous for older people when declines in health and support networks were mirrored in changes in the immediate locality.
They had done the last actions necessar y to create hazards and were unavailable to do further actions to reverse the perilous conditions they created.
Of course, touting highland minorities as fierce warriors was a potentially perilous marketing strategy.
Figures have been thrown out so capriciously in the literature that it is perilous to base one's computation on them.
On the other hand, performance-wise the situation is much less healthy, in fact it's perilous.
Cutting a text can also be a perilous business.
But the consistent focus of the magazine suggests that the perilous state of men is more than a rhetorical ploy.
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