baleful
Example Sentences
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There’s plenty of blame to go around for these baleful developments.
Saint Russia would stand against this baleful homogenization.
From Seattle Times
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
In voice-over, the character, who sports a large but well-tended beard and sees the world with wide, baleful eyes, speaks of “a sea of filth, an endless onslaught of ugliness.”
From New York Times
The country’s main security agency retained its symbolically baleful acronym of KGB.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
