Had it not been for Austria's minacious insistence, Albania would have never been born on Serb occupied territory. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Here, too, he says, veins of iron of considerable thickness were seen to traverse the rock in various directions; and he speaks of the caverns formed in the minacious schistose between the granite and the limestone, as something very extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829] Reference
She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
Foreign minority shareholders still complain of being ripped-off by powerful, well-connected - and minacious - business interests. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
Blackjazz is no less ridiculous nor minacious in its approach, splicing disparate influences into a sound that will intrigue fans of artists as diverse as Rammstein, Fantomas. From Wordnik.com. [MetalSucks] Reference
A whole whose numberless parts are connected by a lowering, mournful, minacious tone. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
"In the name of the king," replied the clerk, between many minacious hiccoughs, and producing a piece of paper, "I have brought you a. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
To be rendered, full of, or filled with, or the like: as, gritty, healthy, wealthy, stony; fearful, peaceful, vicious, hazardous, dangerous; operose, crinose, tumulose, verbose, full of, or filled with health, &c.; labour, hair, hills, words; bibacious, pugnacious, apt to drink, fight; minacious, loquacious, full of threats, talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
They had, of course, in the progress of human life, been both laid upon the bed of sickness, where, with similar contrast, the one lay muttering discontent, and the other smiling patiently: they had both been in dangers by land and by sea, where Julian, though not a little lacking to himself at the moment of peril, was still loudly minacious till it came too near; while Charles, with all his caution, was more actually courageous, and in spite of all his gentleness, stood against the worst undaunted: they had both, with opposite motives and dissimilar modes of life, passed through various vicissitudes of feeling, scene, society; and the influence of circumstance on their different characters, heightened or diminished, bettered or depraved, by the good or evil principle in each, had produced their different and probable results. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
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