All 7 Uses
ominous
in
Gone Girl
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- This was wide-gaping-ominous open.†
p. 23.7 *ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- I stood staring at the box sitting in the middle of the table, so ominous in this new setting.†
p. 73.5
- I took the papers from Boney and saw my name, only my name, versions of it—Nick Dunne, Lance Dunne, Lance N. Dunne, Lance Nicholas Dunne, on a dozen different credit cards, balances from $62.78 to $45,602.33, all in various states of lateness, terse threats printed in ominous lettering across the top: PAY NOW.†
p. 180.9
- It felt ominous, malevolent.†
p. 271.4
- The woodshed was lit up by several portable lights, making it look even more ominous.†
p. 335.6
- The Punch and Judy puppets, they seem a little ominous for an anniversary present.†
p. 379.8
- I was thinking my own questions, the same questions I'd thought for years, the ominous refrain of our marriage: What are you thinking, Amy?†
p. 384.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)