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baleful

[beyl-fuhl] / ˈbeɪl fəl /


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There’s plenty of blame to go around for these baleful developments.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Keating, wisely continuing his collaboration with the marvelous cinematographer Mac Fisken, designs an effectively ominous world of mist-wrapped trees and a frothing shoreline that shades into a baleful gray horizon.

From New York Times

The recommendations are another baleful twist in the course of America’s pandemic, a war-weary concession that the virus is outstripping vaccination efforts.

From New York Times

He might have spent the last five days under the baleful glare of the world’s news media, a target for fury and pity in equal measure, absorbing the blame for Spain’s elimination from Euro 2020.

From New York Times

Under Lukashenko, the country’s main security agency retained its symbolically baleful acronym of KGB.

From Seattle Times