Definitionadj. done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Last update: October 3, 2015
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There is a precipitous fall in grain prices. [Please select]
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The precipitous slopes of Reid 's Ridge are visible on the right. [Please select]
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Valleys of great depth, and some with very precipitous sides, lie round Snowdon, separating the various ridges. [Please select]
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Though protected from any great danger of observation by the precipitous banks, and the thick shrubbery which skirted the stream, no precaution known to an Indian attack was neglected. [Please select]
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The one in question was high and precipitous; its top flattened, as usual; but with one of its sides more than ordinarily irregular. [Please select]
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A dropping fire of musketry now glanced from every part of the precipitous mount on which the Castle was founded. [Please select]
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The Tower of Tillietudlem stood, or perhaps yet stands, upon the angle of a very precipitous bank, formed by the junction of a considerable brook with the Clyde. [Please select]
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Without waiting for any objection on Polykarp's part, he hurried from stone to stone up to the plateau on the precipitous edge of which he had first seen Sirona. [Please select]
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This is the first ridge, and from this on for fifteen miles is a succession of ridges, steep rocky hills, and precipitous declines. [Please select]
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Last night she risked her life climbing down a precipitous cliff in total darkness in an effort to save Billy Langstrom. [Please select]
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He reclined on the greensward near the edge of a precipitous descent. [Please select]
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