Crossword-Solution: PARLOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parlous | a. | Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough. |
| Parlous | a. | Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PARLOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dangerously clever. | 1 answer |
| the precarious life of an undersea diver | 1 answer |
| Fraught with danger | 5 answers |
| Dangerous | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PARLOUS (5)
Action! He climbed carefully but with many twinges, finally pausing in a parlous situation not far from the mysterious window which Laura had opened the night before.
Daylight, after I had been four hours in the water, found me in a parlous condition in the tide-rips off Mare Island light, where the swift ebbs from Vallejo Straits and Carquinez Straits were fighting with each other, and where, at that particular moment, they were fighting the flood tide setting up against them from San Pablo Bay.
Man has much to answer for; and the part he plays is yet more damnable and parlous than Corin’s in the eyes of Touchstone.
Men in khaki moved to and fro like bees before their hive, overrunning the restaurants, the crapulous lunch houses, the parlous hotels, and the stands of the street vendors on which rotten pork lay alongside grimy cheese.
Wherefore am I fain to pray you that you meddle not herein for nought that they within may do to me, for otherwise it may well be that your death is at hand, for against them will you have no might nor power." They come anigh the castle as it were a couple of bow-shots, and behold, through the gateway come knights armed on black horses and their arms all black and their shields and spears, and there were a hundred and fifty and two, right parlous to behold.
Quotes with PARLOUS (3)
When Husni Zaim seized power from Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1949, Syria's economy was a parlous state and its army had been beaten the previous November by the Israelis. Zaim knew that he needed to take action on both fronts fast. After overthrowing al-Quwatli bloodlessly, he set out to open peace talks with the Israelis and mend relations with the French via a currency agreement and an arms deal that would pave the way for renewed French influence in the former mandate. …
BOTTOMThere are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladiescannot abide. How answer you that? SNOUTBy'r lakin, a parlous fear. STARVELINGI believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done. BOTTOMNot a whit: I have a device to make all well. Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem tosay, we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the…
I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1949–2012).