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单词 minatory
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Definition of minatory in English:

minatory

adjective ˈmɪnəˌt(ə)ri
formal
  • Expressing or conveying a threat.

    he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Exploitations of various kinds, in several directions, are recounted in a tone both minatory and droll.
    • But their role in the new order was necessarily prophetic and minatory.
    • The Soviet Union undermined its own objectives by minatory behavior that produced a palpable sense of threat in the Japanese public.
    • Michael Stuhlbarg is a suitably chastened Xerxes, and Len Cariou is properly ghostly as Darius's minatory ghost.
    • The leaders of the fuel protest in 2000 have been making minatory noises.
    • One of the last bestselling American diet books to adopt a minatory tone towards self-control was Dr Irwin Stillman's 1967 Quick Weight Loss Diet.
    • It can be reconciled with everything in Scripture, at least if the statements of Jesus on hell are taken as minatory rather than predictive.
    • The page might need to be consulted soon, before Microsoft lawyers track down the page author and get around to drafting minatory letters to have it shut down.
    • The minatory cloud of forced negotiation with local authorities over even trivial building changes is an excellent way to get Northwestern to think a second time about ‘voluntary’ capitulation to taxation.
    • Lin was soon to make statements crude in content and minatory in tone.
    • These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
    • He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study.
    • We got Bianca Jagger, sandwiched between Harold Pinter at his most minatory - ‘American barbarism will destroy the world!’
    • His depiction of a minatory US foreign policy and its sinister motives is grossly unfair.
    • In the first movement, the Lambeg drums are male, minatory, and hostile, in conflict with the main orchestra.
    • All of these punishments were performed in the presence of the offenders' military unit and were seen simply in terms of minatory retribution and deterrence.
    • Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing.
    • The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
    • Its story, about a boy and a minatory dog, is anecdotally slight, but the way in which the camera observes and negotiates the labyrinthine alleyways of central Tehran is visually telling.
    • Now that he is sending minatory letters to blameless booksellers, this verdict may have to be reviewed.
    Synonyms
    menacing, intimidating, bullying, frightening, terrifying, scary, fearsome, mean-looking, alarming, forbidding, baleful
    menacing, threatening, baleful, intimidating, ominous, admonitory, warning, cautionary

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin minatorius, from minat- 'threatened', from the verb minari.

 
 

Definition of minatory in US English:

minatory

adjective
formal
  • Expressing or conveying a threat.

    he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Michael Stuhlbarg is a suitably chastened Xerxes, and Len Cariou is properly ghostly as Darius's minatory ghost.
    • He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study.
    • Exploitations of various kinds, in several directions, are recounted in a tone both minatory and droll.
    • But their role in the new order was necessarily prophetic and minatory.
    • The minatory cloud of forced negotiation with local authorities over even trivial building changes is an excellent way to get Northwestern to think a second time about ‘voluntary’ capitulation to taxation.
    • We got Bianca Jagger, sandwiched between Harold Pinter at his most minatory - ‘American barbarism will destroy the world!’
    • All of these punishments were performed in the presence of the offenders' military unit and were seen simply in terms of minatory retribution and deterrence.
    • The leaders of the fuel protest in 2000 have been making minatory noises.
    • Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing.
    • His depiction of a minatory US foreign policy and its sinister motives is grossly unfair.
    • These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
    • The page might need to be consulted soon, before Microsoft lawyers track down the page author and get around to drafting minatory letters to have it shut down.
    • In the first movement, the Lambeg drums are male, minatory, and hostile, in conflict with the main orchestra.
    • Its story, about a boy and a minatory dog, is anecdotally slight, but the way in which the camera observes and negotiates the labyrinthine alleyways of central Tehran is visually telling.
    • Lin was soon to make statements crude in content and minatory in tone.
    • It can be reconciled with everything in Scripture, at least if the statements of Jesus on hell are taken as minatory rather than predictive.
    • The Soviet Union undermined its own objectives by minatory behavior that produced a palpable sense of threat in the Japanese public.
    • Now that he is sending minatory letters to blameless booksellers, this verdict may have to be reviewed.
    • The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
    • One of the last bestselling American diet books to adopt a minatory tone towards self-control was Dr Irwin Stillman's 1967 Quick Weight Loss Diet.
    Synonyms
    menacing, intimidating, bullying, frightening, terrifying, scary, fearsome, mean-looking, alarming, forbidding, baleful
    menacing, threatening, baleful, intimidating, ominous, admonitory, warning, cautionary

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin minatorius, from minat- ‘threatened’, from the verb minari.

 
 
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