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Forbiddingly

adverb
1.
In an unpleasant or menacing manner.





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"Forbiddingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... unshuttered, and to Lucas, while he waited, it seemed that several men came to it and glanced at him forbiddingly. None spoke; they just looked as though in righteous indignation at his presence, with seventy-five cents in his pocket, in that high temple of finance. Then the whiskered and spectacled face fitted itself again ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... face of the quarry looked forbiddingly impressive. I will admit that Fyne and I hung back for a moment before we made a plunge off the road into the bushes growing in a broad space at the foot of the towering limestone wall. These bushes were heavy with dew. There were also concealed mudholes ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad


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