Minatory

Word MINATORY
Character 8
Hyphenation min a to ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Minatory"

What do we mean by minatory?

Of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious. adjective

Threatening; menacing.

Threatening; menacing. adjective

Threatening, menacing. adjective

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments adjective

Threatening, menacing.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Minatory

The word "minatory" in example sentences

And if you approach the area from the country end - along the trackbed of the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway - you are still met by a forest of minatory signs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brian Fagan does not mention this possibility in "Elixir," his minatory history of humans' relationship with water. ❋ Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (2011)

It might be fairer to say that the West today is suffering from welcoming the sunny side of Thatcherism while forgetting its minatory aspects. ❋ Charles Moore (2011)

But Anam invests real narrative power in the sections set in the mid-80s, in which the past resonates as an often minatory echo. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And then the ironically minatory heading on the Twitter page: "What are you doing?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

He spoke aloud again, but in a different voice: this one was stern, minatory, expressive. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2010)

The priest had the boy gripped by the nape of the neck, a hold made somewhat difficult to maintain by the fact that the lad was slightly taller than his minatory captor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Could someone fetch her, if it wouldn't be too much trouble "'she held out a minatory hand to Cormo, who looked as if he was going to bolt-" not you, Cormo! ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Instead of arguing persuasively that white occupation of the Black Hills would really be in the Sioux's interest, since they could make a thumping profit out of it, or something of that sort, he was taking a most minatory line, like Arnold lecturing the fags. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

She shook hands firmly with Dalgliesh and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In metallic black, the car looks minatory and sinister. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She checked her laughter and her glance at Julius was at once minatory and conspiratorial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I chose Angela Carter's "The Kitchen Child" because it shows her stories can be sunnier, funnier and altogether more high-spirited than her more minatory, gothic tales might suggest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, it is said, our religion is gone: we no longer believe in St. Edmund, no longer see the figure of him "on the rim of the sky," minatory or confirmatory? ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

Strengthening PSI, along with diplomacy, the threat of sanctions and the incentive of economic cooperation, should be high on the priorities of the Obama administration in Washington, as well as in other governments that have large stakes in a less minatory international environment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One can perform a speech act such as issuing a warning without saying anything: A gesture or even a minatory facial expression will do the trick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Widely viewed as outrageously racist, this minatory speech destroyed his career. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From the moment Glover nasally announces, "I invented Hitler studies ..." the darkly funny, minatory novel jangles in the ear. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet in the unlikely event that a contemporary Mrs. Broy made it past the thought-crime detectors and into a Senate hearing room today, I expect that she'd be given a stern lecture by a GOP family-values fraud and be sent on her way with a minatory copy of the Patriot Act. I could go on and on about the ways in which post-World War II militarism has eroded American family life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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