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Meanings of most forbidding in English

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Usage of most forbidding in English
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It is located on one of the most forbidding walls in Tuolumne.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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It was one of the most forbidding places I'd ever seen.
Nocturnal
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Nature has secreted many of her most useful treasures in most forbidding places.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Carla would have been proud; it was her she-who-must-be-obeyed voice at its most forbidding.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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Occasionally variegated with white, giving them a most forbidding aspect.
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
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She is most forbidding, and never once unbent nor became genial, the whole evening.
The Reason Why
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To the Christian, whose aim and end is peace, war presents a most forbidding aspect.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Naive, sweet melodies give way to pounding avant garde playing of the most forbidding hue.
The Irish Times
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Gabriel drew himself up, looking his most forbidding.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
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She knew by now that when Lady Winterbourne looked most forbidding she was in reality most shy.
Marcella
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His mouth was his most forbidding feature.
The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
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Men will put on the most forbidding aspect in nature, and tell him of the beauty of virtue.
The Man of Feeling
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Marcella wavered; then, with her most forbidding air, she made a scarcely perceptible return of Lord Wandle's bow.
Marcella
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He was a very tall, raw-boned, ill-favoured fellow, of great muscular strength, and with a most forbidding countenance.
The Lifeboat
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Monk was standing over them, a towering figure in white with the most forbidding eyebrows Lanyard had ever seen.
Alias the Lone Wolf
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A visit to Celtic Park is about the most forbidding assignment a team could draw from those on offer.
The Irish Times
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