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forbidding

 adjective
     
for‧bid‧ding
having a frightening or unfriendly appearance
forbidding place/land/landscape etc
We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
His face was forbidding, even hostile.
—forbiddingly adverb
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