Precariously is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRECARIOUSLY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• PRECARIOUS, insecure, uncertain
• in a way that is uncertain or dependent on chance
• in a way that is not securely in position and is likely to fall or collapse
• in a precarious manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• depending on the will or pleasure of another

Words related to PRECARIOUSLY

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How to use PRECARIOUSLY in a sentence

• When into this precariously balanced system of conflicting interests Germany began to throw her weight, the necessary result was a disturbance of equilibrium.
• Their new, precariously held acquaintances would drop them.
• Some of the more slightly rooted trees had fallen, or clung precariously to the earth with bony fingers.
• The civil life of the district was in abeyance, proceeding precariously from meal to meal.
• Clinging precariously to this new hold the jed slowly drew in the landing leather, down which he had clambered until he could grasp the hook at its end.
• Wherever they dwelt, they lived somewhat precariously upon the sufferance of the whites, and in a more or less palpable danger of losing their liberty.
• Hitherto their kingdom had existed precariously, and as it were by sufferance.
• It stretched precariously out into the void and seemed to rest on nothing.
• While the sun shone, and the masses of soft white cloud floated slowly against the blue, hope still held me, if precariously at times.
• And it was for this tide that the Japanese had so precariously waited.
• Those that lived so precariously would have little conscience about stripping him of his possessions.
• But there is a terribly complicated labour going on beneath, propelled with difficulty, and balanced precariously, with much secret friction and failure.
• A spider ladder, with tiny platforms some twenty feet one above the other, hung precariously to the cliff-face.
• So there they were, small fish making shift to live precariously with other small fish in a pool where big fish swam lazily.
• Yet the current flowed smoothly onwards, through a wealth of vegetation which clung precariously to every ledge and natural escarpment.
• At first we thought that the basswood was going to break clear, but it finally hung precariously against the hemlock at a height of thirty feet or more above the bed of the brook.
• He could leave it only precariously to a steward and manager, and to convey the revenue of it to him at a distance was a difficult and costly proceeding.
• The immediate fortunes of the Plan are precariously hanging in the balance.
• Chairs, tables, and bedsteads hang precariously into the room below.
• She felt the dinghy yield as she stepped from it, and she seemed for one instant to be hanging precariously in space above the terrifying waters.
• And now she clutched at the mantel with one hand while in the other the lamp swayed precariously.
• He hung precariously on the ragged edge, but he hung there.
• Whenever the dogs slacked from topmost speed he rose to his knees, and, yelling and urging, clinging precariously with one hand, threw his whip into them.
• With an instinct for safer quarters, Miss Penny had started off towards the path which led precariously across the narrow neck to the mainland.

Similar words containing CARIOUS without suffix ly and without prefix pre

carious9 scarious10 vicarious14 precarious14 cariousness13 urticarious13 vicariously19 cariousnesses15 vicariousness18 precariousness18 vicariousnesses20 precariousnesse19 precariousnesses20

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