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She looked at him with two unblinking, baleful eyes.baleful = threatening or harmful
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Harry stared at it and the bird looked balefully back, making its gagging noise again. (source)balefully = in a threatening manner
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Glaring balefully over the top of her red-framed eyeglasses, she said... (source)
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His eyes were baleful and cold. (source)baleful = threatening
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...while the young dudes in hooded sweatshirts stare balefully at the strange, bowlegged old white lady in Nikes and red sweats who slowly hobbles up the three flights of dark, urine-smelling stairs on arthritic knees to visit her best friend, Mrs. Ingram in apartment 3G. (source)balefully = in a threatening manner
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The second nurse fixed me with a baleful eye. (source)baleful = threatening
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And platoons left, squads right, had stilt-muscled themselves to fitful rest, to baleful glare, itching for the match to whiff out. (source)baleful = threatening
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Rawlins eyed balefully that cauterized terrain. (source)balefully = in a threatening manner
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Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes. After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with. (source)Baleful = threatening or harmful
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"He's tracking us," Edward announced, glaring balefully at Laurent.† (source)balefully = in a manner that is threatening or harmful
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Even from where Claude stood, the baleful rumble in the dog's throat was unmistakable.† (source)baleful = threatening or harmful
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Marvin eyed him balefully for a moment, and then turned himself off.† (source)balefully = in a manner that is threatening or harmful
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How baleful and outlandish and cruel we must have seemed.† (source)baleful = threatening or harmful
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The drivers of the trucks, an oppressed minority of two, have retreated into the cab of the sound truck to smoke cigarettes and glare balefully at the swarm of thrashers, their sworn enemies in the food chain of the highways.† (source)balefully = in a manner that is threatening or harmful
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This morning the tornado warnings were out, on the weather channel, and by mid-afternoon the sky had turned a baleful shade of green and the branches of the trees had begun to thrash around as if some huge, enraged animal was fighting its way through.† (source)baleful = threatening or harmful
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"You'll see when we get there," Nathan said balefully.† (source)balefully = in a manner that is threatening or harmful
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