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UK
/pɹɪkˈeəɹɪəsnəs/
]
NOUN
- extreme dangerousness
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being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
the uncertainty of the outcome
the precariousness of his income
How To Use precariousness In A Sentence
- On the level of form, you share mortality and the precariousness of existence.
- She is a sad, lonely career girl whose financial precariousness makes her a highly suggestible young lady who will clearly do almost anything for a sawbuck.
- The economic precariousness forced a substantial number of men to leave for distant lands as migrant workers.
- Which is shelter from competition, the tax man and most of all, "precariousness" of any kind. Berlusconi Is Back
- Wells was well aware of the precariousness of human life.
- The film captures the precariousness of an addict's sobriety.
- M'Iver, who was the first to take watch for the night, paced back and forth along the lobbies or stood to warm himself at the fire he fed at intervals with peat or pine-root Though he had a soldier's reverence for the slumbers of his comrades, and made the least of noises as he moved around in his deer-skins, the slightest movement so advertised his zeal, and so clearly recalled the precariousness of our position, that I could not sleep. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- I walked on the other side, feeling the precariousness of the road.
- The precariousness of human life is expressed through the recurrent motif of being lost at sea.
- Despite the precariousness of the situation, the rescue went off flawlessly.