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- He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties."
p. 89..9fraught = filled (with something negative)
- The judge said: "There are five of us here in this room. One of us is a murderer. The position is fraught with grave danger."
p. 185..5 *fraught = filled
Definition:
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(fraught) full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress