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perilous

[ per-uh-luhs ]

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adjective

involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous:
a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
Synonyms: risky
Antonyms: safe

perilous

/ ˈpɛrɪləs /

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First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Anglo-French perillous, from Latin perīculōsus; peril, -ous

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Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

It is a tricky and perilous path, but there are no realistic alternatives.

But if Mare Nostrum ends, it could be a tragic day for migrants making the perilous crossing.

Unfortunately, this can result in sending a well-intentioned but perilous message.

And now Persecuted holds up a mirror to the perilous situation facing increasingly disenfranchised Christians in modern America.

The road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.

This rather is, I should deem, the more perilous, and a plainer and better object for philosophical attack.

On their perilous journey an attack of measles increased their discomforts.

Moreover, when we come to pay off, the crew will receive a bonus, in consideration of the long and perilous voyage.

He had access to the ocean only in a latitude in which navigation is, during a great part of every year, perilous and difficult.

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