doom-laden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Director Amy Berg would rather us see Buckley as he was in the world instead of some conveniently doom-laden figure.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
The president is receiving doom-laden messages he believes are from outer space.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
However it's defined, though, the idea of distinct sleeping arrangements, also known by the doom-laden sobriquet "sleep divorce," sounds like a marital death knell.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2024
It is a mentality that bears the collective weight, from the party's perspective, of a doom-laden history.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2023
Despite the blessing of a glorious summer day, the whole of Mossflower was doom-laden with an awful tension that threatened to burst upon the captives seated on the grass.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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