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menacingly

[ US /ˈmɛnəsɪŋɫi/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛnɪsɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. 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
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