[
US
/ˈmɛnəsɪŋɫi/
]
[ UK /mˈɛnɪsɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛnɪsɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a menacing manner
the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly
How To Use menacingly In A Sentence
- The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade.
- Fang demonstrated a little more gumption only once, when Lucius Malfoy visited Hagrid's cabin. Then menacingly.
- Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
- In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels. The Sun
- He increasingly has a menacingly frowing steep mountain to climb. Obama resigns from controversial church
- As it hovered menacingly, it spoke the now familiar words in its screeching voice.
- Malevolent in appearance as it hovers menacingly in the spring skies, the Apache attack helicopter will soon be a familiar sight over Yorkshire.
- To wave or flourish ( a weapon, for example ) menacingly.
- The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
- Suddenly, a tall and stately golden figure saw us and brandished his weapon menacingly.