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I'm beginning to hear ominous rumblings of discontent.ominous = threatening
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With the clouds looking so ominous, I'm afraid there will be a bad storm.
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Slow, ominous strides, coming right toward them. (source)ominous = threatening or suggestive of bad things to come
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The idea of a white Christmas usually excited me, but now it felt ominous. (source)ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
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Ominously he pointed the blade of the shovel at the boy in the owl burrow. (source)Ominously = in a threatening manner
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"Explain," she said, her glasses glinting ominously. (source)ominously = in a threatening way
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The sharp sound as the gloves snapped into place against his wrists seemed ominous to me. (source)ominous = threatening (foreshadowing evil)
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Then Vlad had reached over to his block of big cutting knives and started laying them ominously out on the counter, arranged by size. (source)ominously = suggestive of bad things to come
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First a terrible ominousness would fill the air.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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There was a murmur among the group of men, made more ominous when Atticus moved back to the bottom front step and the men drew nearer to him. (source)ominous = threatening
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As he was shaking the cold out of his legs, a huge gust of wind came splashing against the tree above us, heaving over a branch and knocking it against one of the electric wires. "That's not good," Mondo said, nodding ominously at the tree. (source)ominously = suggestive of bad things to come
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His mother's taciturnity was not without ominousness, but he appeared not to care.† (source)
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There is something ominous behind the silence. (source)ominous = threatening
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"General, I understood General Lee to say that the enemy would be up on the ridge back there..." Longstreet said, "That's correct." McLaws hummed, scratched his face. "Well?" Longstreet said ominously. "Well, the enemy's right in front of me..." (source)ominously = suggesting/expecting bad things
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He remembered the clammy ominousness he felt; his apprehension seemed to be a part of the unseasonable and oppressive heat, close as a boiler room, which even in the approaching twilight remained stagnant on the breezeless air, drenching him in sweat.† (source)
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The cans in the galley floor did not look in any way salvable and even in the locker there were some that were badly rusted and some that wore an ominous bulbed look. (source)ominous = threatening
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