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A question heavy with meaning or emotional impact, as in When he inquired after Helen's ex-husband, that was a loaded question . This term employs loaded in the sense of “charged with hidden implication.” [Mid-1900s]Discover More
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This is admittedly a loaded question, but do you feel James Earl Ray really killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is a loaded question for me, because there is no right answer to this in the political world.
He seemed to walk into court invigorated and ready to fully answer whatever loaded question Lowell might lob at him.
That is the most viciously loaded question I ever heard—it can't be answered except in the wrong way!
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