baleful

Aside from the challenge this style represents to the rule of law and ordered liberty, it can have baleful political consequences too.

The details of Knight's upbringing were not disclosed in court, but Judge Richardson described them as "baleful".

The truth is there in the baleful eyes of the figures who don’t get to speak, especially the bloodied prisoners handcuffed to the stair railing at the police station where her mother works.

That makes the action sequence showing Joel methodically gunning down armed men and women to retrieve his surrogate daughter thrilling and baleful because we are watching him write a check destined to come due.

The basic premise that the U.S. is always and everywhere a baleful influence is not easy to falsify.