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"Ominous"2 answers
baleful7 lettersthreatening11 letters
Filled answer is this word (BALEFUL).
Definitions
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, […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Ominous”7 letters
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