menacingly

English

Etymology

menacing + -ly

Adverb

menacingly (comparative more menacingly, superlative most menacingly)

  1. In a menacing manner.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 19:
      Food, more and better, was placed near her - but, dumb and motionless, she lay with her face turned to the wall, and her dog growled menacingly at the stranger.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
      Thor glared at him [...] what little light there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.

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