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Menacing   /mˈɛnəsɪŋ/   Listen
Menacing

adjective
1.
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.  Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.  "Forbidding thunderclouds" , "His tone became menacing" , "Ominous rumblings of discontent" , "Sinister storm clouds" , "A sinister smile" , "His threatening behavior" , "Ugly black clouds" , "The situation became ugly"


Menace

verb
(past & past part. menaced; pres. part. menacing)
1.
Pose a threat to; present a danger to.  Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten.
2.
Express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture.
3.
Act in a threatening manner.





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"Menacing" Quotes from Famous Books



... his head, looking with terror into vacant spaces of the dim room, as if following with his eyes some menacing form. He whined piteously. "I have purposed to be faithful"; he put up his hand as if to ward off a blow. "Thou knowest! thou knowest!" His voice was like a whispering shriek. The terror of his face and gestures was appalling ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall
... before me, forbidding, almost menacing: there was anger in his large brown eyes. But he made no sound, he came no nearer. Instead, as I advanced, he gradually fell back, and I noticed that another dog, a vague rough brindled thing, had limped up. ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... effect of turning the skin yellow. And among these merry revellers were some thus—but, I hope and believe, only temporarily—disfigured. The cheerfulness with which they are prepared to run these risks, not to mention others more perilous but less menacing to personal vanity, is not the least of the finenesses of character which the war has brought out; and the thought of that and of their hard work and their gay courage made the spectacle of the happy high ...
— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas
... Democratic opposition, which was in the country at large distinctly opposed to coercion. The government and the ruling class in England were clearly hostile to the North, and the position on that side was menacing. ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James
... menacing look of the night and its cheerless sounds, and the cold, and the weight of the sack, had all but brought him to the door of death, and he had dropped his sack onto the road and was dragging it ...
— Tales of Three Hemispheres • Lord Dunsany


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