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MENACING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Example:
the situation became ugly
Synonyms:
baleful; forbidding; menacing; minacious; minatory; ominous; sinister; threatening
Classified under:
Similar:
alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb menace
Context examples:
On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had traversed half a mile or so when suddenly the sound was repeated, still behind me, but louder and more menacing than before.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever-menacing and ever warring.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He stood for an instant, and then he crept forward, crouching, menacing, into the room.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On that to the right sat a very tall and well formed man with red hair, a livid face, and a cold blue eye, which had in it something peculiarly sinister and menacing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The two men came briskly up to the scratch at the call of time, the smith a little lumpy on one side of his head, but with the same good-humoured and yet menacing smile upon his lips.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was slowly advancing in a peculiarly menacing way, but he stopped now and put his big hands into the side-pockets of a rather boyish short jacket which he wore.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At such times, confronted by three sets of savage teeth, the young wolf stopped precipitately, throwing himself back on his haunches, with fore- legs stiff, mouth menacing, and mane bristling.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The man mastered himself with a violent effort, and his grim mouth loosened into a false laugh, which was more menacing than his frown.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was deep-mouthed shouting of men, frightened shrieks of women, howling and barking of curs, and over all a sullen, thunderous rumble, indescribably menacing and terrible.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
