Synonyms for menacing
men·ac·ing

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1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, ill, forbidding, threatening

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. menacingadjective

   Synonyms:
   threatening, minatory

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1. List of paraphrases for "menacing":

   threatening

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1. Chris Boyle:

   It's unfortunate that the County Executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders.

2. Andreas Beer:

   If you take a look at the Joker, it's an ambiguous mixture between something funny and something menacing, it's a horror clown and that's kind of, somehow cool. You can make memes of that.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

4. Donald Trump:

   Russia is a menacing government that does not share our interests and it does not share our values.

5. Communications Salleh Said Keruak:

   It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.