What's the difference between parlous and perlous?
Parlous
Definition:
(a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
(a.) Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the remarks by Gross, whose pronouncements on bond markets are regarded as highly influential, added to the sense that the economy remained in a dangerously parlous state.
(2) Pentagon assurances about the parlous state of its Syrian proxies are in doubt: within a week, it initially denied and then conceded that one group provided US equipment to al-Qaida in Syria and that it has paused the process of adding new recruits.
(3) Every piece of business research that has ever been done shows that when a company puts a women on their board the company does better yet women make up 17% of the boards of FTSE 100 companies and that is a parlous state.” The broadcaster said she was inspired by more feminine values that had particularly influenced one Icelandic company, run by two women , which survived Iceland’s economic collapse a few years ago.
(4) It speaks volumes about the current parlous state of the US economy that America's central bank on Wednesday announced fresh measures to boost growth .
(5) ITV Encore, a pay-TV channel launching in the summer and exclusive to Sky subscribers for an undisclosed period , and free-to-air ITVBe – launching in late 2014 and the new home of The Only Way is Essex – will be the broadcaster's first new channels since CiTV in 2006, at least partly because of the previously parlous state of its finances.
(6) George Papandreou Unveils Radical Reforms to Salvage Greece’s Public Finances: 14 December 2009 Greece will use its worst debt crisis in decades to rebuild itself, Papandreou pledges as he unveils reforms to set right the parlous state of the nation’s public finances .
(7) Byrne justifies the freeze on the grounds of low inflation and the parlous state of public finances.
(8) Newspapers are in a parlous state at the moment ... we need a more grown up debate than this."
(9) At the back of investors' minds is the knowledge that such action has only been precipitated by the parlous state of the global economy; a steadily worsening situation, in Europe, the US and elsewhere, has provoked central banks to act.
(10) The Department for International Development believes such projects undermine the already parlous image of the Afghan government.
(11) Angrily punching the air as politicians debated the country's parlous economic plight, protesters shouted: "We give a vote of no confidence."
(12) Initially the bank asked Ireland's central bank for €7bn to prop up its parlous finances following the Irish property crash.
(13) Given the parlous state of the newspaper industry, the fight for advertising and the near endless prospect of austerity, that’s pretty amazing.
(14) We're pleased the commission recognised this, but need to consider whether the recommendations will go far enough to address the parlous state of competition in the UK."
(15) The special report warned that the parlous state of the French economy, its rising unemployment, lack of competitiveness, dwindling industry and high public spending, could overshadow the problems of Greece or Spain, and sparked angry reactions from French ministers.
(16) (The guy seemed to pass: “Basically an imperial stout, Vietnamese coffee edition – comes in at 12.7%, strongest can we’ve ever done, in fact the strongest can in the world right now.” Then, with a flourish of which Watt himself might have been proud: “So, I guess, the king of the cans.”) At about the time Camra was getting under way in the UK, beer on the other side of the Atlantic was in an equally parlous state.
(17) But he has done the opposite, allowing short-term tactical victories against terrorist networks to overwhelm America's wider strategic priorities and leave its relations with key governments in a parlous state.
(18) Neil Blake , Head of UK and EMEA research at the CBRE , said: Much of the downgrading of GDP estimates for 2012 and the on-going weakness of UK economic forecasts reflect the parlous state of private sector construction.
(19) I accept that given the parlous economic situation, the government has tough decisions to make.
(20) But his release is loaded with symbolism about the parlous state of Egypt and fading hopes for peaceful political change across the wider region – graphically underlined by the latest carnage in Syria .