Adjective : a precipitous wall of rock. ,precipitous mountain trails. From Dictionary.com.
I mention my precipitousness because one week ago, a mere two weeks into my adventure, I was ready to end it all. From Wordnik.com. [What have I got myself into? Part 4] Reference
Remember, it indicates the precipitousness of the rise in blood sugar—and keeping it steady is the name of the game. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET] Reference
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
There is but the single carefully watched entrance, with a sheer drop on one side and, I venture to say, equal precipitousness on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Everything was off, outlandish, and unnatural, from the stream to the stars to the sun that had abandoned the alien sky with deviant precipitousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
And I use him as an example, because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference
And I use him as an example because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list, May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference
And I use him as an example, because what I'm concerned about is the precipitousness of him getting on the watch list, May of 2008, around the time that he was investigating one of our agencies in DHS. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference
Almost all the highways of Italy were erected on a foundation four feet deep; when a space of marshy ground or bog was on the track of the road, it was filled up; and when any part of it was mountainous, its precipitousness was reduced to a gentle and trifling inclination from the general line of the road. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
The trail was tiring because of its precipitousness and the great number of rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Wilson Price Hunt] Reference
Where is the sharpness and precipitousness, the contempt for life, whether one's own or another's?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rule of Reason] Reference
Where is the sharpness and precipitousness, the contempt for life, whether one's own, or another's?. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us. '. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
"Perhaps the only surprise in the real estate indicators for the first quarter of 2009 is the precipitousness of the drop," the report says. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
She honed her comic skills there while enduring her growth spurts - 'I reached my full height by the sixth-form,' she says, 'but I was also very very thin, and people used to laugh at the gangliness rather than the precipitousness' - and went on to do politics at Bristol University. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The precipitousness of the montage conjures up both the identification of man and nature, as figured by Harris's out-of-body "crow's eye view" flight through the forest as well as his sudden awakening to the central conflict between the Rousseauist utopianism of the merry band of Medievalist motorcyclists he leads versus the alienating threat that modernity and capital pose to their way of life. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
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