Meaning of minatory | Babel Free

Definitions

Threatening, menacing.

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he Place⟳ de Greve, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel […]”

“Number⟳ 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look⟳.”

“[H]er father quietly addressed a few words, by letter, to George Flack. This communication was not of a minatory order⟳; it expressed on the contrary the loose sociability which was the essence of Mr. Dosson's nature.”

“She shook hands firmly with Adam Dalgleish and gave him a minatory glance⟳ as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble⟳”

“In the cottage next to the post⟳ office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'”

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