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fraught with danger

ADJECTIVE
risky
Synonyms
STRONGEST
delicate dicey hazardous perilous precarious sensitive speculative treacherous tricky uncertain unhealthy unsafe unsound
WEAK
chancy endangered going for broke hairy hanging by a thread iffy insecure jeopardous long shot not a prayer off the deep end on slippery ground on thin ice on-the-spot out on a limb playing with fire rocky ticklish touch-and-go touchy venturesome wicked wide-open
Antonyms
STRONGEST
certain definite harmless healthy honest insensitive protected safe secure stable strong sure well
WEAK
assured

Example Sentences

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Going on record to say the absence of a particular player is a boost to the opposition is fraught with danger.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

The impending arrival of hot Santa Ana winds — combined with two years of overgrown vegetation — all but ensure that this fall will be fraught with danger.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

We both survived childhoods fraught with danger, though mine wasn’t as dramatic or brutal as Carr’s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

But the trip was fraught with danger from the outset.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024

We always tend to think of the past as “the good old days,” while the future seems fraught with danger.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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