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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



... midnight a closely veiled lady drove up to a street corner adjacent to the city prison, a dolorous-looking building which loomed up still and menacing just ahead. She alighted and, dismissing the cab, strode off quickly into the side street. At a distant corner, in front of a crowded eating-house, two spirited horses, saddled and in charge of a grumbling stable-boy, champed noisily at ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... truculent; indeed, verged almost upon the menacing. Evidently the shock had adversely affected his temper, to the point where he might make personal issues out of unavoidable trifles. Instinctively Mr. Leary felt that the situation which had ...
— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... Enghien. Gassion, who as Enghien's lieutenant had the control of the movements, so arranged the marches that, while steadily approaching Rocroi, the marshal believed that he intended to force the Spaniards to fall back, rather by menacing their line of communications than by advancing ...
— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty
... in which the adventurous courage of the Suliotes (together with their menacing position) could not fail to involve them, were in all eleven. The first eight of these occurred in times before the French Revolution, and with Pachas who have left no memorials behind them of the terrific energy or hellish perfidy which marked ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... see if he don't," thought Ben. He kept an eye on the boot-black and his patron until the job was finished. Then he witnessed what appeared to be an angry dispute between the two parties. It terminated by the gentleman lifting his cane in a menacing manner. Ben afterwards gained from the boy particulars of the transaction, which may be given ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger


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