Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
1 His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory .
2 The unrestful, the well-organised and minatory sea had been advancing quickly.
3 The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact.
4 The eyebrows were distinctly minatory above eyes that loosed ugly gleams.
5 Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
6 Obey your parents; obey the tribal elders, especially when they adopt a solemn, minatory tone.
7 Meek's slide into the depths of decline was played out against a minatory pop climate.
8 The girl gave a minatory glance to the congregation, then knelt and retrieved the ring.
9 They are minatory , they are calls to action.
10 The heavy, laboured speech seemed to hold something minatory in it-thesullen lowering which precedes a tempest.
11 The officer repeated his phrase, trying the conversational, wheedling, and minatory tones in turn-butit was useless.
12 They were invariably minatory , from his memory.
13 A young man, hardened by austere and minatory sermons, was melted, says Dr. Belcher, by simply reading,-
14 His manner was half minatory .
15 Pass by with minatory eagle-glance, with calm-sniffing mockery, or even without any mockery or sniff, when these present themselves?
16 In a voice that slipped between injured and minatory he said, Can't a man bring money into the Doll, then?
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