All 3 Uses of
ominous
in
Hoot
- They had broad triangular heads, like the prairie rattlers back in Montana, but their bodies were muck-colored and ominously plump.
p. 51.5ominously = in a threatening manner
- Rain slashed down in wind-driven sheets that stung his face, and lightning crashed ominously nearby.
p. 68.4
- Ominously he pointed the blade of the shovel at the boy in the owl burrow.
p. 271.0 *
Definition:
threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)