Meanings of ominous in English

The family said they're worried something sinister may have happened to her.

Back then, technology was seen as sinister in many films, Cork said.

There was something sinister in the quiet that reigned in the room.

He said it became sinister when they came back a second night.

Taiwan says China has sinister intentions, and it must defend its freedoms.

Neither do I want any menacing talk of a Christmas general election.

Talk can be emollient, talk can be suggestive, talk can be menacing.

The result was far more menacing than plain bone would have been.

It is particularly menacing on the night after our national saint's day.

Perhaps the menacing cloud she'd seen earlier had backed off, gone away.

Russia responded with its own law forbidding Americans from adopting Russian children.

There were rules forbidding group meetings of more than a certain number.

Burning in the right way There's something immediately forbidding about debal curry.

Fish rippled the water, but Braan insisted on maximum stealth, forbidding fishing.

The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.

Perhaps Osborne wants to take the fight to his baleful Leave foes.

When the day comes,' she added with a baleful look at me.

The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.

The baleful idea that truth is nudity beset me on every occasion.

Our work, then, must be in the face of these baleful influences.

His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory.

The unrestful, the well-organised and minatory sea had been advancing quickly.

The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact.

The eyebrows were distinctly minatory above eyes that loosed ugly gleams.

Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.

She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture.

This was the third such attack since the ship dropped anchor in this minacious port.

Foreign minority shareholders still complain of being ripped-off by powerful, well-connected - and minacious - business interests.

Had it not been for Austria's minacious insistence, Albania would have never been born on Serb occupied territory.

The shuttle traders asked the government to legalize and regulate their vanishing trade and thus to save them from avaricious and minacious customs officials.