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Adjectives
1. (adj.) baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening;
  - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
  - “a baleful look”; “forbidding thunderclouds”; “his tone became menacing”; “ominous rumblings of discontent”; “sinister storm clouds”; “a sinister smile”; “his threatening behavior”; “ugly black clouds”; “the situation became ugly”;

2. (adj.) ill, inauspicious, ominous;
  - presaging ill fortune;
  - “ill omens”; “ill predictions”; “my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven”; “a dead and ominous silence prevailed”; “a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government”;

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