1. menacing - Noun
2. menacing - Adjective
3. menacing - Verb
5. menacing - Adjective Satellite
of Menace
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense. Douglas MacArthur
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be. Dave Bautista
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. Federica Montseny