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are baleful
adjective
Portending evil; ominous.
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Her creations are baleful, tragicomic, with a bewildering array of targets, running to a frenetic plot which verges on insanity.
The giant rats and mice who invade the house on the stroke of midnight are baleful and sinister, James Streeter playing their king with dark piratical swagger.
She is and remains a pallid figure, as do the other characters (Russians excepted), apart from one or two who are baleful cartoons.
But the consequences of that war are baleful, debilitating and still spreading.
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He now thinks this influence was baleful.
But the effect of that rule is baleful.
Redon's eye is baleful: not to be trusted.
And indeed the evidence is baleful and familiar.
The expression in his eyes was baleful, aloof, and slightly suspicious.
Inside the country, however, the role of the KGB was baleful.
There has been no noticeable official or public endorsement of Mr. He's baleful call to arms.
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