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Meanings of perilously in English
Portuguese
arriscadamente Synonyms
Examples for "dangerously"
Examples for "dangerously"
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But it is quite dangerously cold, said Amelia Burr, of Help Refugees.
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Problem Gambling Foundation chairman Richard Northey said online gambling was dangerously accessible.
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Generation O Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children.
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Yet Switzerland defended well, broke dangerously at times and deserved a point.
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The sound of 20 quadrillion calculations happening every second is dangerously loud.
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Chas jerked up with a start, rocking the boat hazardously.
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It is tiresome to live any other way than hazardously.
3
France and Germany are hazardously in agreement in regard to English and American liberal idealism.
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My faith was less hazardously established; and I moved off, under the conviction that art had never produced anything more horridly natural.
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Fido is our hazardously impolitic nickname for a man who can only be described as the music industry's pet senator- ahigh-rankingRepublican.
Usage of perilously in English
1
Once they came perilously near the Earl and his partner; nothing else.
2
For Malaysia's aviation industry that superstition looks perilously close to the truth.
3
Unless you happen to be a perilously lost member of Village People.
4
The unfortunate victim of the law came perilously close to despair then.
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So the over-indulgence in alcohol could lead him perilously close to madness.
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The path had been a steep one, perilously sapping her waning energy.
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What was pushing her perilously close to breaking point was the isolation.
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All three of you, to take such a risk was perilously foolhardy.
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Ernest saw that she was getting perilously near the facts and considered.
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They threw the reins of their horses after drawing almost perilously close.
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Their conversation was approaching perilously near the forbidden topic of de Courtois.
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Otters have also come perilously close to extinction due to their pelts.
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When the wind rises to a storm it must rock perilously indeed.
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Although the food had been carefully husbanded, it was running perilously low.
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There were moments when they came perilously near loving the aggravating creature.
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Few, though, appreciate how perilously close the whole enterprise came to disaster.
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Perilously through the time
Perilously across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common