The phrase "a worrisome prospect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or outcome that causes concern or anxiety.
Example: "The rising unemployment rates present a worrisome prospect for the economy in the coming year."
Alternatives: "a troubling outlook" or "a concerning possibility."
That our impulsive commander in chief may one day initiate some new war in a fit of pique is a worrisome prospect.
The case sets up a possible clash between the government and the powerful army, a worrisome prospect in a country with a history of military coups.
It could be a worrisome prospect for the United States team if, in a pivotal year before the World Cup, Onyewu does not play regularly with Milan.
This is a worrisome prospect for networks that continue to count on the money machine grinding away -- unless the current pricing system simply cannot be changed.
Many here viewed Obama's last-minute equivocation as the latest evidence of a growing U.S. reluctance to engage aggressively in the Middle East, a worrisome prospect for a nation that relies heavily on its close American ties to intimidate enemies.
"It is a very worrisome prospect," he says, "to consider that chemicals that children are exposed to every day that are widely detected in the blood of pregnant women, in breast milk, and in cord blood could well be neurotoxic chemicals whose neurotoxicity has just never been properly examined".
The prospect of a default by Greece, however, is an even more worrisome prospect; fears of such an outcome drove down the euro Tuesday, to $1.3396 from $1.3486.
This air-driven device was an even more worrisome prospect.
Zingales said in the piece that he had initially devoted a section of his 2014 book, "A Capitalism for the People," to the "worrisome" prospect of a Trump presidential run.
One worrisome prospect is a rule that permits a Part D plan to increase the co-payment or even end coverage for a drug on 60 days' notice.
The growing tensions have even held the tiny but still worrisome prospect of dragging the United States into a military confrontation with China Washingtonn is obligated by treaty to defend Japan if it is attacked, and American officials have said in the past that the islands fall within the scope of that security treaty.
