Unstable by being overloaded at the top.
Roget 28:
unequal,
uneven,
disparate,
partial;
unbalanced,
overbalanced;
top-heavy,
lopsided,
biased,
skewed;
disquiparant†.
Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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Roget 959:
drunk,
tipsy;
intoxicated;
inebrious†,
inebriate,
inebriated;
in one's cups;
in a state of intoxication
etc.
n.;
temulent†,
temulentive†;
bombed,
smashed;
fuddled,
mellow,
cut,
boozy,
fou†,
fresh,
merry,
elevated;
flustered,
disguised,
groggy,
beery;
top-heavy;
potvaliant†,
glorious;
potulent†;
squiffy [Slang];
overcome,
overtaken;
whittled,
screwed [Slang],
tight,
primed,
corned,
raddled†,
sewed up [Slang],
lushy [Slang],
nappy†,
muddled,
muzzy†,
obfuscated,
maudlin;
crapulous†,
dead drunk.
woozy
[slightly drunk],
buzzed,
flush,
flushed.
inter pocula†;
in liquor,
the worse for liquor;
having had a drop too much,
half seas over,
three sheets in the wind,
three sheets to the wind;
under the table.
drunk as a lord,
drunk as a skunk,
drunk as a piper,
drunk as a fiddler,
drunk as Chloe,
drunk as an owl,
drunk as David's sow,
drunk as a wheelbarrow.
drunken,
bibacious†,
sottish;
given to drink,
addicted to drink,
addicted to the bottle;
toping
etc.
v..
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