menace
Example Sentences
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He evinces the warmhearted humanity that Sonny tries feebly to hide when he believes he has to show menacing swagger.
“You saying I stink, kid?” he said, leaning over me with fake menace.
From Literature
One of L.A.’s pollution chiefs warned that “anyone who smokes a pipe, even, contributes to the smog menace.”
From Los Angeles Times
Wherever she is deployed, she will be a constant menace to a backline that has been decimated by injury.
From BBC
In the months leading up to the U.S. and Israeli campaign, senior Arab officials say Araghchi flitted between openness, at times joining friendly dinners, and menacing by appearing to imply Iran might attack its neighbors.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
