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View synonyms for menacing

menacing

[ men-i-sing ]

adjective

  1. expressing or serving as a menace or threat: menacing language.

    his menacing glare;

    menacing language.



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Other Words From

  • menac·ing·ly adverb
  • non·menac·ing adjective
  • un·menac·ing adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of menacing1

First recorded in 1350–1400; menace ( def ) + -ing 2( def )

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Synonym Study

See ominous.

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Example Sentences

Two menacing Fargo-esque figures show up to complicate things.

But the moment suggests to him that if he is awake, then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined.

And many of my Sikh friends have shared with me a history of racial slurs and menacing stares they have endured over the years.

But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond.

But it will take a lot more than castrating one menacing tantric to turn the tide.

He saw the Theban Hills rolling their dark, menacing wave along the far horizon.

A black, menacing wall that rose before us suddenly resolved itself into a grove of trees, great four-foot cottonwoods.

It was like a child's drawing of a human eye, round, staring, and at the same time infinitely menacing.

And hardly a degree less menacing is this gigantic octapus of labor unionism—of inexcusable socialism.

She was about to proceed in this somewhat menacing manner, but the captain sprang up, excited, and red in the face.

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