perilsome
adjEtymology From peril + -some.
1
Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
- In which regard it was considered of by the common table of the cupbearers what a perilsome thing it was to let any stranger or out-dweller approach so near the precincts of the prince as the great chamber without examining what he was and giving him his pass.1998, Paul Salzman, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- It did not need the Scourers or the Mohocks to make going abroad a perilsome affair.2014, Pat Rogers, Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture: