The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threatening \Threat"en*ing\, a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv.
Threatening letters (Law), letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
Wiktionary
adv. In a threatening manner.
WordNet
adv. in a menacing manner; "the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly" [syn: menacingly]
Usage examples of "threateningly".
He breathed heavily for a moment, then looked up at Jacoby, who stood over him threateningly.
Before Martin could reply, he turned around to Mme Musette, who was standing in the open doorway and he waved his finger at her threateningly.
Queen Ine only muttered a word now and again, or lifted her club threateningly over some skulker, yet none appeared to wait upon its descent, for when she drew near they bent down instantly, with the obsequity of slaves to pick up the bag or cask they had been inclined to pass before, and energetically rushed to the spring or boat waiting to receive it.
I said threateningly to the idiot, and at the sound of my voice and the gesture of my hand, he blenched, yelped, rolled over away from me, and then got to his feet and shambled off for several yards before stopping to regard us once more with his pacificatory, disgusting ogle.
Another wampus already was swimming steadily toward open ocean, its back loaded with people and supplies, the ice-strewn water lapping threateningly close to the passengers it transported.
As the hyphae spread threateningly towards them Kimberley ran to the flame-thrower.
And as he refused to obey she waved her crop threateningly and at a propitious moment banged the door upon his impertinent snub-nose.
Half of them stood somewhat apart from a dozen in maroon, backed up against the side of a cubicle, truncheons held threateningly aloft.
One of the younger apes, a huge, splendidly muscled brute, was edging threateningly closer to the ape-man.
We climbed down into the gully, however, and, with many an apprehensive glance aloft where the top of the basswood hung threateningly over our heads, approached the foot of the hemlock and began to chop it.
Men in padded suits armed with sacks would occupy the ambushes, and if the dogs got close without discovering an ambush, the men were to jump out and flail threateningly at them.
As the hyphae spread threateningly towards them Kimberley ran to the flame-thrower.
Next to where its feet would have been if it had had feet, a dog-sized lump of multilegged one-eyed phlegm lifted its rostrum and sniveled threateningly.
That was why he panicked momentarily when he saw his brand-new chrome-plated top-of-the-line Persephone gardener-mower squatting aloof in the northern reaches of the lawn, unattended and idling threateningly.
Roberts stopped, beside the gray pillarlike leg of the behemoth that had its shoulders and snout inside the space yacht, and its huge sledgehammer-like tail swishing threateningly behind it.