baleful
Example Sentences
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There’s plenty of blame to go around for these baleful developments.
It’s a bloodshot baleful eye glowering down at us from the heavens!
From Scientific American
“It is far easier to convince the multitude that Slavery is a baleful evil to them,” he later explained, “than to possess them with the idea that it is a cruel wrong to the enslaved.”
From Washington Post
Rovère’s baleful deadpan is a constant amusement as the director, inspired by mold on her ceiling, sets off on a late-in-life search for the excitement she no longer feels.
From New York Times
Yet a baleful score and slow, forbidding shots of the landscape suggest that evil lurks nearby.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
