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baleful

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"Ominous"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbeɪl.fəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abeflluStarts with BEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Word origin

From Middle English baleful, balful, baluful, from Old English bealuful, which was equivalent to bealu + -ful. By surface analysis, bale (“evil, woe”) + -ful. See bale for further etymology.

Used in a sentence

  • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, Amidst the soundless solitudes immense Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • According to them all sorcerers, necromancers and evil-doers were born under the baleful influence of the seventh calendic sign[.]
  • […] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, […]

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