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Answer for the clue "Most fraught with danger ", 6 letters:
direst

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Dire \Dire\ (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. Direr (d[imac]r"[~e]r); superl. Direst .] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.] Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. Dire was the tossing, deep the ...

Usage examples of direst.

It suggested a reaffirmation that in fact there existed between House Agamemnides and House Hardchargin (for the murders could have been perpetrated by no other House) a state of direst kramden.

Both the Duke's summons, and the presence of Shaddap himself, promised to bode naught but direst ill.

So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.

Emerson was easily distracted by ruins, but Sethos’s claim that he had known of their purpose aroused the direst of forebodings.

It was not unheard of for her to go riding, alone or with a friend, but the fact that she had not mentioned a name roused the direst of suspicions.

She was cuddling Dolly in a way that aroused Ramses's direst forebodings.

She was cuddling Dolly in a way that aroused Ramses’s direst forebodings.

Two of them held lanterns, and by that yellow light and the white glare from the oval portal now behind me, I recognized Alizon's direst enemies: gray robes, gray eyes, black hair—male and female Estcarpians!

It was unreasonable of me to hold Kasarian personally responsible for the injuries that I and other Dalesfolk had suffered… and yet he was an Alizonder baron, and thus represented our direst foes.

I told her that the key would provide access to a magical outlet for escape to be used only by those of our blood, and only in the direst emergency.