Minatory

/ˈmɪn.ə.tɔːɹ.iː/ · adjective

Meaning

Threatening, menacing..

Example Sentences

[…]the Place de Grève, 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.

[…]her 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 Dalgliesh 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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• more minatory
• most minatory
• miniatory

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