menacing

the dark and menacing deeps.

darkly menacing alleys

a menacing look on his puss;

His voice was quiet and almost menacing.

She had a slightly menacing manner.

they were trapped in a menacing maze of corridors.

Your vicious dog is menacing my cat!

a menacing and furtive look to his eye. Somethingsurreptitious is stealthy, furtive, and often unseemly or unethical:

Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand in the banlieue.

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

The main reason which made newspaperdom feel menacing was that broadcasting could spread to lots of areas at once when breaking news occurred.This is obviously that newspapers cannot make it.

There is a public health menace. There is a crisis.

We're past talking. The guy's a menace.

For President Donald Trump, Iran is a unique menace.

But chief among the threats is the nuclear menace of North Korea.

Monkeys can be a menace in the market.

" They're a real menace, " said Jerrod Carlisle.

What is Padme's first line in " The Phantom Menace? "

We're past talki The guy's a menace.

You're a dangerous menace who doesn't care about who he hurts.

To campaigners, it is a menace behind a sharp increase in fatal attacks.