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forbiddingly

ADVERB
  1. in an unpleasant or menacing manner
    it was forbiddingly dark in the corridor

How To Use forbiddingly In A Sentence

  • The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
  • The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
  • Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking.
  • There is a forbiddingly cruel woman on the one hand and an innocently sweet girl accomplished in the art of good housekeeping on the other.
  • It was a brave little house with a big, tumbledown barn and fields that sloped into forests beyond. The days were bright with snow, the nights forbiddingly dark.
  • it was forbiddingly dark in the corridor
  • That's particularly stirring in a crucial moment of self-assertion—"Am I a machine without feelings?" she begins—with Michael Fassbender's forbiddingly handsome Rochester. See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre'
  • He glared forbiddingly, his eyebrows beetling together like two fuzzy caterpillars were mating on his forehead.
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