menacingly
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menacingly (comparative more menacingly, superlative most menacingly)
- In a menacing manner.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 19:
- Food, more and better, was placed near her - but, dumb and motionless, she lay with her face turned to the wall, and her dog growled menacingly at the stranger.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
- Thor glared at him [...] what little light there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.
Translations edit
In a menacing manner
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