portentous

the author's portentous moralizings.

the envelope and its portentous contents.

a building of portentous size

The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.

The dark clouds were a portentous sign of an approaching storm.

His portentous speech made everyone uneasy about the future.

The sudden silence in the room was portentous of bad news.

The old man's portentous warnings about the haunted house scared the children.

The eerie music created a portentous atmosphere in the horror movie.

The fortune teller's portentous predictions left the audience in awe.

The sudden appearance of a black cat was seen as a portentous omen by the superstitious villagers.

The eerie silence in the abandoned house felt portentous to the trespassers.

The politician's portentous promises failed to convince the skeptical voters.

The portentous music in the background added to the suspense of the thriller movie.

There was something portentous in his appearance.

" To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, portentous" .

The " cranks" were all rebels, and the list was portentous.

To Adams, Reeve's refusal seemed portentous.

He ran his eye down the pages, and his countenance grew portentous.

As Amy returned from her last trip, Mr. Davis gave a portentous " Hem" !

Mr. Bumble, catching at the inquiry very quickly, shook his head with portentous solemnity.

Next the loud mournful whistles, the portentous vibration and the boat, the human idea--is in motion.

Yet the four miles to the Creek are stirring, like the bleak, portentous beginning of a good tale.

(as in " burdened with making portentous decisions" ), which was added to our dictionary in 1934.