How to Use "parlous" with Example Sentences

1. In the case of industrial technology , the effects of this disregard were parlous .

2. Few now doubt that the world economy is in its most parlous state since the 1930s .

3. The chinese made no mention of britain 's parlous public finances , and raised no concerns about investing in gilts .

4. The fact that banks could turn government bonds from across the euro zone into cash at the ecb encouraged governments to borrow , and banks to rely on short-term funding to an extent now proving parlous .

5. Given its particularly parlous economic situation , greece has seen the most focused public anger so far , in protests that dwarf the modest several hundred who turned out in athens on saturday .