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doom-laden

British

adjective

conveying a sense of disaster and tragedy

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Then what's accepted in most government circles now as the real-world effect of the government's early doom-laden messages: things will get worse before they get better.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

Otherwise, this is an inventive and engrossing collection of stories which, though death-tinged, are never doom-laden.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

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

Even the doom-laden everything bagel that provides the film’s titular motif is redeemed, by the end, as a doughy symbol of wholeness, a poppy-seed circle of life.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2023

When Hermione had bustled off to check on the Polyjuice Potion again, Ron turned to Harry with a doom-laden expression.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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