Definition of Menacing

Menacing

of Menace

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Mason Cooley

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.
William Dampier

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
Rory Bremner

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Frederica Montseny

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Menacing Translations

menacing in German is androhend, bedrohend, drohend
menacing in Swedish is hotet

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