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Balefully

Balefully \Bale"ful*ly\, adv. In a baleful manner; perniciously.

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balefully

adv. In a baleful manner.

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balefully

adv. in a baleful manner; "she looked at him balefully"

Usage examples of "balefully".

He gazes balefully at the mess, waving his hands in vague curves like a sculptor seeing a shape in a rough block of marble.

All the dull heaviness of sickness was gone for the moment, and King Henry was the King Henry of ten years ago as he rolled his eyes balefully from one to another of the courtiers who stood silently around.

He turned round balefully, thrust his head between the top and centre banding bars, and tried to scramble through.

One morning I stared balefully at a plateful of eggs that seemed hopelessly gooey and toast that looked like plasterboard, and I exploded.

All the dull heaviness of sickness was gone for the moment, and King Henry was the King Henry of ten years ago as he rolled his eyes balefully from one to another of the courtiers who stood silently around.

Above the village, the sky was heavy with a dark, billowing smoke that glowed balefully with the yellow-orange glare of the fire.

An unnatural cloud of dark grey smoke hung balefully over the town, and the frames of several buildings stood blackened and smoldering in the town center.

The three immense volcanoes of the Tharsis Bulge and the even bigger caldera of Olympus Mons seemed to be staring down at him like the four monstrous wide round eyes of a demon, staring balefully.

The tall thief stared balefully at his frightened captive a moment longer and then stepped back slowly, the angered features relaxing and a faint hint of his former good-naturedness returning in a quick smile.

Glanton's eyes in their dark sockets were burning centroids of murder and he and his haggard riders stared balefully at the kid as if he were no part of them for all they were so like in wretchedness of circum­stance.

He stared balefully at Barnum as if his captain had lost half his gray matter.

She set the iron on its fanny, making it hiss balefully, and eased into the Boston rocker by the picture window.

With a slight swagger to his movements, he paused on the threshold to slap the dust from his clothes, deliberately positioning himself so that his sword and mail glittered balefully and his hair glowed like burnished gold in the sunlight.

The werewolf glared at him balefully, its bloody tusks gnashing hideously!

Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves-he had too many horrid memories of ur-viles -but he suppressed his discomfort, tried not to think balefully of Vain.