threatening

[US]/ˈθretnɪŋ/
[UK]/'θrɛtnɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. menacing; indicating danger or harm; likely to turn harmful

Phrases & Collocations

Threatening behavior

Example Sentences

He was well-known for his violent and threatening behaviour.

the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage.

threatening to tear it off its hinges.

some of the stockholders are threatening to scuttle the deal.

there are seismic pressures threatening American society.

The banks are threatening to pull the plug on the project.

Threatening skies portend a storm.

The threatening strike did not take place after all.

many newcomers are exposing themselves to life-threatening injury.

her mother had received a threatening letter.

drivers are threatening to quit their jobs in fear after a cabby's murder.

She was always threatening to leave him, but when it came to the crunch she didn’t have the courage.

They started putting the frighteners on the witness, sending him threatening letters.

Most politicians get poison pen letters, sometimes threatening their lives.

The salesman scared the old lady into signing the paper by threatening to take away the goods.

submissive children can be cowed by a look of disapproval. Tobully is to intimidate through blustering, domineering, or threatening behavior:

Bowknot is very the ornamental of dainty soft beauty, to the shoe model compare with pediform requirement tall, cannot deduce the clever beautiful temperament with threatening bowknot otherwise.

instigating, suborning or threatening others to commit perjury or hindering witnesses from giving testimony;

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