Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a precarious manner; dependently; hence, with risk of detriment, alteration, failure, total loss, or removal.
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- adverb In a
precarious manner;dangerously
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- adverb in a precarious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
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Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall.
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Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The lighting setup was four ceiling lights (two warm white incandescent and two daylight energy saving) with one fluorescent desk lamp for right-side illumination and a large halogen standing lamp (titled precariously and propped up by random furniture) at 45 deg which was the illumination source from the left and also the brightest of the lot.
Anime Nano! 2009
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Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs.
Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...) Michael Bronner 2011
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Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs.
Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...) Michael Bronner 2011
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The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly.
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