baleful

How To Use baleful In A Sentence

• By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare. Times, Sunday Times
• Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness. Andersonville
• Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood. Living Alone and Loving It
• These groups point to a number of situations in which the proposal could have baleful effects on the rights of other workers or on customers.
• Under the paternal demeanor all anyone ever detected was a terrible waste balefulness. Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
• Local people can still recall the baleful glow in the night as the mill blazed.
• There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
• Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom. Times, Sunday Times
• Look at the baleful example of MPs' salaries. Times, Sunday Times
• His baleful influence will wane. Times, Sunday Times