precarious
He closes with a meditation on the precariousness of life.
Statewide blackouts drove home the precariousness of California's energy situation.
The precariousness of my posture on the ledge bothers them.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangers and threats
balefully
baneful
banefully
black spot
hang
hang over something
hazard
hazardous
hazardously
non-lethal
on/under pain of deathidiom
or elseidiom
parlous
parlously
someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom
tombstoning
treacherously
triple threat
ultra-hazardous
venturesome

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Unsafe and insecure

Examples of precariousness

precariousness
The precariousness of the whole edifice was made clear to all who cared to look in the early 1770s.
The intervention of trade unions in this power relationship has created a wide variation in the degree of precariousness experienced by workers.
For this set of convents, their problems were also exacerbated by the peculiarities of their status on the continent, and the precariousness of their survival.
It was bedevilled by unemployment, social exclusion and a growing sense of precariousness and inequality.
The third is 'precariousness', or its position relative to the thresholds - the unstable manifolds between stability domains.
Perhaps more importantly as regards poverty alleviation policy, results indicate that the poor-soils group may suffer a broad precariousness of livelihood.
For these workers, loss of work identity is compounded by expressions of fear, humiliation and personal and social precariousness.
The vulnerability of a system involves both precariousness and panarchy.
The period witnessed repeated cyclical depression, bankruptcies, and harvest failures which made contemporaries aware of the precariousness of survival.
His lifelong predisposition, as a composer, was to represent the precariousness of any human happiness.
The final section reveals the diverse strategies by which people try to struggle against the problems of precariousness and marginality.
This balance is probably changing, with the increasing precariousness of both public and occupational welfare in the ' post-bubble ' economy.
Covering a span of over 50 years and with a large cast of characters, the diary offers constant reminders of the precariousness of late eighteenth-century existence.
The high mortality of children under a year old was accompanied by an unusually high early childhood mortality rate, which reflected the precariousness of living conditions.
A distinction was made between the security and permanence of investment income and the insecurity and precariousness of income from employment.
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