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minacious
adjective as in menacing
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adjective as in minatory
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- aggressive
- alarming
- apocalyptic
- at hand
- baleful
- baneful
- black
- bullying
- cautionary
- close
- comminatory
- dangerous
- dire
- fateful
- forthcoming
- grim
- ill-boding
- imminent
- impendent
- impending
- inauspicious
- intimidatory
- looming
- loury
- lowering
- lowery
- near
- overhanging
- portending
- portentous
- scowling
- sinister
- terrorizing
- ugly
- unlucky
- unpropitious
- unsafe
- upcoming
- warning
adjective as in threatening
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Example Sentences
In sound and subject, “Neither” is a spectacularly dense, mysterious and minacious work.
We read about “kairotic shifts” and “swanky solanums”; there is a “minacious theme” and “unfeasible grass.”
They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative.
She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture.
This was the third such attack since the ship dropped anchor in this minacious port.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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