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is menacing
verb
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
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Their rhetoric is menacing.
Even the black backdrop with white clouds and a huge staircase is menacing.
But whereas Flynn's character, Amy Dunne, is menacing, powerful, manipulative, Rachel Watson is almost the opposite.
This is quite literally dehumanising: to question or undermine people's humanity is menacing stuff.
"Liverpool Street is menacing and metaphysical and vast," Iris Murdoch wrote in her 1975 novel "A Word Child".
WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up — or grow worse over time?
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Qc3 30.Rf3 Qc2 31.Rdf1 (Preparations are almost complete. 32.e5 is menaced).
MJ: "Part of the Rolling Stones, not only when we started out but throughout, some of it is menacing but you're not menacing for two hours, you're menacing for 10 minutes and then you're smiling and romantic and so you're not.
The consequences would be menacing.
The passengers complained that Barber was menacing.
For the more traditional media industry, the moment was menacing.
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