With regard toFrance andHolland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are moreloaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;
1812,Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 8,page118:
[…]the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue becameloaded with a thick brown crust ;[…].
What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, moreloaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.
2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan,Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy,page15:
What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport becameloaded with a set of Victorian values.
He sold his business a couple of years ago and is justloaded.
1995, “Common People”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics),Different Class, performed by Pulp:
She told me that her Dad wasloaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola”
2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Is heloaded? “Yeah!” How much is he worth? “I don’t know, but I could probably never be poor again. When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much. I don’t know what I’ve done with my money.[…]”
2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
And my God, doesn’t it feel good? For a few moments to think of the country as the place of sacred ointments and special spoons, grand cathedrals and epically wealthy, exquisitely dressed people. In that moment we can see our own country in their image: a country that is sober, benign andloaded.
They played awhile to Corinius’s great content, for at every throw he won and the other’s purse waxed light. But at this eleventh stanza the son of Corund cried out that the dice of Corinius wereloaded.
The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the moreloaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.
If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been moreloaded against my client.
2009, Michèle Lowrie,Horace: Odes and Epodes,page224:
Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even moreloaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies[…].
That interviewer is tricky; he asksloaded questions.
2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, inthe Guardian[3]:
At a press conference held in a Valencia hotel two weeks ago, Jesús “Suso” García Pitarch was asked why Peter Lim had bought the city’s football team in the first place. It was aloaded question, one supporters have pondered often over the last couple of years, and the answer, or the lack of one, felt loaded as well.
