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fraught

adjective as in full of

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It’s a fraught category but may be helpful in understanding the merits of the show.

Our relationship was fraught on that show — we were either the best of friends or the worst of enemies over the course of even a day, because we were all these young, hormonal teen boys.

Drawing comparisons across cultures and time periods is a fraught business.

Some say their students are too young to understand, while others say the subject is too fraught with emotion and political controversy to deal with at any length — or at all.

It’s a fraught environment, not a place where any one person gets to make all the decisions.

This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.

He was a!ways ready to tell a story that seemed fraught with significance.

Due to the fraught relations between Turkey and Greece, he was safe.

Yet, the relationship between American politics and la mode is more fraught.

But it is their fraught emotional relationship that makes the story so explosive.

The influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.

To do so at any price frequently demands skill, and is always fraught with consequences of some kind to the listener.

How rapidly past times came thronging over my memory, fraught with joy and grief!

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions.

The trip promised to be perilous and fraught with danger, as well as grueling and full of hardships.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fraught, such as: charged, filled, replete, abounding, attended, and bristling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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