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menacingly

menacingly adverb: in a menacing manner.

Adverb

menacingly (comparative more menacingly, superlative most menacingly)

  1. In a menacing manner.
    • Food, more and better, was placed near her - but, dumb and motionless, she lay with her face turned to the wall, and her dog growled menacingly at the stranger.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 19
    • Thor glared at him [...] what little light there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110

Forms of menacingly

comparativemore menacingly
superlativemost menacingly

Origin of menacingly

From menacing + -ly.

Questions about menacingly

What does menacingly mean?
Menacingly means in a menacing manner.
What part of speech is menacingly?
Menacingly is an adverb.

Words near menacingly in the dictionary

  1. menaces
  2. menacest
  3. menaceth
  4. menachin
  5. menacing
  6. menacingly
  7. menacingness
  8. menacings
  9. menacme
  10. menad
  11. menadiol

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