ominous
used in The Grapes of Wrath

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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

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