Related Clues:

• Fraught with danger, as circumstances
• ___ straits
• Hardly looking good
• Unforgiving
• Desperate, as a warning
• Desperate, as straits
• Extremely worrisome
• Really dreadful
• Foreboding trouble
• Hard to endure
• Alarming
• In __ straits
• Like the ending of ''Romeo and Juliet''
• Overly demanding
• Like some reprimands