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Definition
threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- the voice grew bleak and ominous "she thinned out and she skinnied out, an' she dropped that baby, dead."Chapter 22 (62% in)
ominous = suggestive of evil or bad things to come
- Jessie demanded ominously.Chapter 22 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "ominous" in The Grapes of Wrath.
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