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ominous
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Not Without My Daughter
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Then there were the ominous pasdar, a special police force that prowled about in small white four-wheel-drive Nissan trucks.†
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ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
I was in the hall of Ameh Bozorg's house one evening, shortly after dark, when I heard the ominous roar of jet aircraft, flying low, approaching our section of the city.†
Over the space of a few days, for some unspoken reason, Moody grew more sullen and ominous than usual, but he must have assumed that he had me effectively cornered.†
Our day-to-day existence improved, but inwardly, we were on a collision course that could be more threatening and ominous than ever before.†
Late in the evening, after some of the guests had left and we were preparing to follow, the sudden ominous wail of the air raid sirens sounded.†
Tehran's large population of Armenians always makes a joyous celebration out of the Christian holiday, but this year they received an ominous warning.†
Suddenly, Moody and Mammal's clandestine late-night conversations took on a far more ominous aspect.†
His behavior carried ominous overtones.†

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