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threatening

 adjective
     
threat‧en‧ing
1 if someone's behaviour is threatening, you believe they intend to harm you:
His voice sounded threatening.
a threatening gesture
2 if the sky or clouds are threatening, bad weather is likely:
a threatening thundercloud
—threateningly adverb
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