Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.
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- adjective
Threatening .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yesterday was cold and windy grey, the clouds low and threatful.
"The sky above won't fall down." greygirlbeast 2009
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Someone needed to have taken Kevin Durand aside and shown him Tilda Swinton's portrayal of Gabriel, as an example of a creepy, threatful Gabriel done well.
After the Relapse greygirlbeast 2010
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Someone needed to have taken Kevin Durand aside and shown him Tilda Swinton's portrayal of Gabriel, as an example of a creepy, threatful Gabriel done well.
After the Relapse trillian_stars 2010
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Yesterday was cold and windy grey, the clouds low and threatful.
"The sky above won't fall down." greygirlbeast 2009
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In this way it is possible to maintain a "pool" of people who are in the threatful position of being mere consumers, landless and also poor, and who therefore are eager to go to work for low wages — precisely the condition of migrant farm workers in the United States.
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The establishment has always been itching to slap the label “controversial” to anything they perceive as threatful to their agenda, and definitely nothing short of having an “MLK-Lite” image think Desmond Tutu will appease them.
Controversy over Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Anxious Black Woman 2008
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Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: “Learning, quotha!” said he; “I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!”
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Myriads of such rains had, with age long inevitableness, crumbled away the strong fortress till its threatful mass had sunk to an abject heap.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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He made, however, but one threatful stride towards the factor, for the great man turned and fled.
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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Its grotesque and threatful character was greatly increased by the mingling of its one substance with its many shadows on the wall behind it.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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