Both Uses
ominous
in
Asylum, by Madeleine Roux
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- Whoever had put it in his mailbox had already left one ominous note on his desk.†
p. 170.1 *ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- And, oh yeah, who could forget the little fact that every time someone had been attacked, there'd been a mental gap he couldn't account for—unconscious in the basement when Joe had been killed, napping in his room when Yi was knocked out, and sending ominous text messages when Felix was nearly bludgeoned with a crowbar.†
p. 262.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)