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affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce" uneasy not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" insecure dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder" insecure fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery" dangerous |
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