balefully

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said the Allies to each other balefully, their eyes no longer lit by battle, but irritable with disillusion--and each told his women tales of the other's shortcomings.

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  • Dooley's assistant marshal followed him into the diner and the two cops eyed us balefully, trying to look ominous. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • The Martian stopped, regarded Klondike Pete balefully, and tossed the body of a dead second husky a pace toward him. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Glowering at the wizard balefully, the dragon nevertheless suffered the mysteriarch to mount its back and command it to do his bidding. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Its eyes gleamed balefully, and with sharp switchings of its tail it glared at the girls, ready to spring The moving picture girls were faint with fear, and too frightened to shout for help. —  The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film
  • The Cap'n gazed on him balefully, and resumed One Arizima Orff has bewitched and bedeviled him, his cattle, his chattels, his belongings, including one calf, one churn, and various ox-chains. —  The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
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  1. Middle English balfully, baillfully. from baleful + -ly.
 

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