Usually means: In a manner suggesting harm.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. threateningly: Merriam-Webster
  2. threateningly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. threateningly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. threateningly: Wordnik
  5. threateningly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. threateningly: Wiktionary
  7. threateningly: Dictionary.com
  8. threateningly: Rhymezone
  9. threateningly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. threateningly: FreeDictionary.org
  11. threateningly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. threateningly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. threateningly: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threateningly: Legal dictionary

(Note: See threaten as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a threatening manner.

Similar:
menacingly, threatfully, intimidatingly, minatorily, tauntingly, provokingly, portentously, alarmingly, terrifyingly, dangerously, more...

Types:
menacingly, dangerously, imminently, hostilely, more...

Phrases:
say threateningly, runs threateningly, walk threateningly, teased threateningly, envelop threateningly, more...

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Similar:
menacingly, threatfully, intimidatingly, minatorily, tauntingly, provokingly, portentously, alarmingly, terrifyingly, dangerously, more...

Types:
menacingly, dangerously, imminently, hostilely, more...

Phrases:
say threateningly, runs threateningly, walk threateningly, teased threateningly, envelop threateningly, threateningly says, lingered threateningly, said threateningly, to speak threateningly, more...



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