[
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
- It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
- Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
- So Mandy and Carole are the last Prætorian guards defending Number 10 against Gordon's advancing legions and the Children of the Night, ululating menacingly at the heels of Howard Dracul.
- In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels. The Sun
- An elderly man ran at him with a cry of fury and a large earthen pot raised over his head menacingly.
- Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside. CHAPTER XXVII
- I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop.
- A lean man, smartly dressed, wearing shades, hovers menacingly.
- Some of them avoided republican activism like the plague when there was a risk to personal safety or freedom, but with the Good Friday Agreement found it easy to puff the chest out and ask menacingly ‘do you know who I am?’
- He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw. Times, Sunday Times