parlous

Conviction is also driving investors, particularly wealthy Europeans who see huge stakes in the continent’s parlous security situation.

In turn, he wants help to consolidate his power in Syria, secure its borders and rescue a parlous economy with access to Russian energy and investment.

It's just that the world was in a parlous state.

The parlous state of state hospitals, state schools, and state railways are all being used against Orban by Magyar and his party.

It came in a speech primarily about the government's parlous economic inheritance.