Englishparlous
adjective
archaic or humorous
the parlous state of the industry:
bad, dire, dreadful, awful, terrible, appalling, frightful, grave, serious, desperate, precarious, uncertain, touch-and-go, difficult, unsafe, perilous, dangerous, risky;
pitiful, wretched, sorry, poor, lamentable, woeful, hopeless;
informal dicey, hairy, lousy;
British, informal dodgy, chronic.