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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



... alone could interpret the designs of the Creator, what did it result from if not from a congenital lack of that highest modesty which replies 'I do not know' even to the questions which Faith, with menacing forger, insists on having most ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse
... Now Panther-yelling (or other menacing sound) is heard in the other direction. The Chief shouts: "But now the Panthers have ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... Luristan) seemed a commentary on this speech.(20) The viceroys of this latter mountainous, warlike, and remote land had always exerted themselves to acquire a position independent of the great-king; it was the more offensive and menacing to the Parthian government, when Pompeius accepted the proffered homage of this dynast. Not less significant was the fact that the title of "king of kings," which had been hitherto conceded to the Parthian king ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... idle habits, cheap subsistence, and a low standard of comfort—we think it much if we can keep down insurrection by the bayonet and the sabre. Lucro ponamus is our cry, if we can effect even thus much; whereas Rome, in her simplest and pastoral days, converted this menacing danger and standing opprobrium of modern statesmanship to her own immense benefit. Not satisfied merely to have neutralized it, she drew from it the vital resources of her martial aggrandizement. For, Fifthly, these colonies were in two ways made the corner-stones ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... in Parliament. The very eminent ability of that small group of Protestant gentlemen never flashed more brightly than in the closing scenes, and there was a moment when the attitude of the Orangemen and the yeomanry was so menacing that the Government were seriously alarmed. But a lavish distribution of peerages and places purchased a majority, and the troops stationed in Ireland were too numerous for armed opposition to be possible. ...
— Historical and Political Essays • William Edward Hartpole Lecky


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