fraught

/frɔːt/ adjective

Definition

fraught with danger/difficulties, etc › full of danger/difficulties, etc: The present situation is fraught with danger.

› mainly UK causing worry, or feeling worried: a fraught silence Is everything okay? You're looking a bit fraught.

(Definition of fraught adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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