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Definition
unsafe or in danger of getting worse — especially in danger of falling
- I bobbed precariously on the immigrant flood; I smelled of Kilkenny, the back seats of station wagons, and the chlorine of YMCA pools.Chapter 1.2 (16% in)
- During speeches to the Corps, the indisputable power of his own rhetoric would affect him so viscerally that he would dance along a thin, precarious edge of control in constant danger of plunging headlong into much darker and more radical passions.Chapter 1.5 (11% in)
There are no more uses of "precarious" in The Lords of Discipline.
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