adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
state
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The mill was relegated to storage for many years, and by the 1960s was in a somewhat parlous state .
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But it still didn't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on the parlous state of contemporary kits.
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Derbyshire is probably in the most parlous state of all the first-class counties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the parlous state of the country's economy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it still didn't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on the parlous state of contemporary kits.
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Derbyshire is probably in the most parlous state of all the first-class counties.
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His priority is his own increasingly parlous situation at home.
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The death of Vial left his widow in parlous straits.
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The mill was relegated to storage for many years, and by the 1960s was in a somewhat parlous state.