Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Precipitous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Precipitous.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
precipitous .
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Examples
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Hammering them will get the soldiers out of Iraq, and produce a precipitious fall in oil and gas prices.
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His prediction comes in the wake of this year's precipitious ad pages declines across Conde Nast -- 31.1 percent at Vogue.
Publishing Director Says McKinseyed Vogue Is Back on Track 2009
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His prediction comes in the wake of this year's precipitious ad pages declines across Conde Nast -- 31.1 percent at Vogue.
Publishing Director Says McKinseyed Vogue Is Back on Track 2009
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That was the beginning of a rather precipitious end for me and this particular crew of "enlightened" folk.
"Is anyone as unsurprised as I am that he's a Leo?" Ann Althouse 2008
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The basic argument is that reading, or what they rather awkwardly refer to as "voluntary reading" that is, reading done purely for pleasure or self-improvement is in a precipitious state of decline, especially among the young — a situation which poses a grave threat to our culture, democracy and civic fabric.
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The basic argument is that reading, or what they rather awkwardly refer to as "voluntary reading" that is, reading done purely for pleasure or self-improvement is in a precipitious state of decline, especially among the young — a situation which poses a grave threat to our culture, democracy and civic fabric.
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The decline of the rule of law in the United States has been precipitious under the Bush administration.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: February 2006 Archives 2006
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I was precipitious in talking to my newspaper people, and you got hurt.
White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992
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The precipitious drop followed a bright opening, on a day when a global financial leader warned of worldwide recession and the
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The precipitious drop followed a bright opening, on a day when a global financial leader warned of worldwide recession and the White House promised new action.
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