All 3 Uses of
ominous
in
A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- Maybe the best I can tell you is, I'm a man; but listen lady," he said and paused and made his tone more ominous still, "what is a man?"†
Story 3.ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet.†
Story 7. *
- Her eyebrows, thin and fierce as a spiders leg, had drawn together ominously and the deep vertical pit had plunged down from under the red bangs into the bridge of her nose.†
Story 10.