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adjective

minatory

expressing or conveying a threat

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Six example sentences with minatory, each labelled with its topic.

  • The score turns minatory whenever the lighthouse appears, low strings promising that something is waiting in the dark.

    Movies

  • The letter from the supplier was minatory in tone, hinting that deliveries might simply stop if the invoice stayed unpaid.

    Business

  • A minatory raven perches on every doorway in the poem, and each appearance leaves the narrator more certain of ruin.

    Literature

  • The lawyer's letter was minatory without naming a single statute, warning vaguely of consequences if the review stayed online.

    Law

  • The bass line grows minatory in the second movement, a low repeated figure that seems to warn the listener.

    Music

  • The emperor sent a minatory message to the border towns, promising trouble for any that welcomed the rebels.

    History

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