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Meanings of minatory in English

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.

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Usage of minatory in English
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His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory.
The Vanished Messenger
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The unrestful, the well-organised and minatory sea had been advancing quickly.
And Even Now
3
The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact.
Captain Blood
4
The eyebrows were distinctly minatory above eyes that loosed ugly gleams.
Alias the Lone Wolf
5
Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
6
Obey your parents; obey the tribal elders, especially when they adopt a solemn, minatory tone.
The god delusion
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Meek's slide into the depths of decline was played out against a minatory pop climate.
The Guardian
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The girl gave a minatory glance to the congregation, then knelt and retrieved the ring.
In for a penny
9
They are minatory, they are calls to action.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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The heavy, laboured speech seemed to hold something minatory in it-thesullen lowering which precedes a tempest.
The Lamp of Fate
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The officer repeated his phrase, trying the conversational, wheedling, and minatory tones in turn-butit was useless.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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They were invariably minatory, from his memory.
The Irish Times
13
A young man, hardened by austere and minatory sermons, was melted, says Dr. Belcher, by simply reading,-
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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His manner was half minatory.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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Pass by with minatory eagle-glance, with calm-sniffing mockery, or even without any mockery or sniff, when these present themselves?
Past and Present
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In a voice that slipped between injured and minatory he said, Can't a man bring money into the Doll, then?
Dogs of war
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