Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
1
Some rockets get through, putting innocent civilians, including children, at deadly risk.
2
The Mediterranean Sea is the world's most deadly border area for migrants.
3
It was the second deadly suicide attack on police in two days.
4
Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a deadly short circuit.
5
Strategies changed as conditions changed, and they had taken a deadly turn.
1
The effects are particularly pernicious for children whose lungs are still developing.
2
The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
3
Perhaps the most pernicious danger is that of infant and toddler food.
4
You may not fear carbs today, but the anti-carb camps are pernicious.
5
The passive defense is always pernicious; the active may accomplish great successes.
1
Maslum created all things baneful to humanity to disrupt his brother's relationship.
2
There is a useful and a baneful employment of the herbaceous kingdom.
3
Alas, why wander we, trusting in vain hopes and forgetting baneful death?
4
It is in fact the healing caduceus as well as the baneful thunder-weapon.
5
The last was by far the most baneful: his fortunes withered under it.
1
All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils.
2
And from this pestilent beginning, the other sacrilegious conceits followed on me.
3
It is this pestilent son of yours has brought you into trouble.
4
She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going.
5
And yet the rogue is but a pestilent roundhead-themore's the pity!
1
Perhaps Osborne wants to take the fight to his baleful Leave foes.
2
When the day comes,' she added with a baleful look at me.
3
The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.
4
The baleful idea that truth is nudity beset me on every occasion.
5
Our work, then, must be in the face of these baleful influences.
6
His eyes were fixed like baleful lights in a haggard, corpse-like countenance.
7
Prior to that baleful night they had fallen behind the marching van.
8
Out of the windows of the library looked Lord Ashbridge's baleful face.
9
Casting a baleful glance at Jane, Marian complied with the terse invitation.
10
With a baleful glance at Elsie, Marian sullenly obeyed the stern voice.
11
She was ignoring them, staring up at me with a baleful look.
12
Whereat I grinned, and she regarded me silently with a baleful glare.
13
He caught the baleful glare of the marquess and gratefully scurried away.
14
He drew himself up again and cast a baleful stare at Bidwell.
15
The goggling eyes held a terrified but baleful gaze upon Brayley's face.
16
His glance, as he rested it on Bryce now, was baleful, ophidian.
