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threateningly

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One of Arecibo’s final observations, at the end of July, was to take a closer look at one of the more threatening asteroids discovered this year.

Democrats nominated him precisely because they believed — correctly, as it turned out — that, of their many contenders, he would be the least threatening to the center and the right.

This is especially true in the middle of a frightening pandemic that is both medically and economically threatening.

However, please know my family is off limits when it comes to hateful and threatening messages.

None of the experts I spoke to thought it was a good idea to dismiss the risk of armed or threatening poll disruptors out of hand.

Clip still had the club he had taken from the Mexican's companion, and he squared away threateningly.

Gregory picked up an ax as he stepped back, and then stood confronting the boys threateningly.

What they did not notice was that the sun had disappeared behind an ominous bank of clouds and the wind was rising threateningly.

Talpers advanced toward her threateningly, and she retreated toward the door which opened into the other room.

Mrs. Lawton, unaccustomed to any remonstrance from her bondwoman, seized a switch and shook it threateningly.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to threateningly, such as: angrily, boldly, brutally, ferociously, forcefully, and frantically.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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