The crook said some baleful words to the crime victim. From LearnThat.org.
A baleful look. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
WW was a room full of big women and a few big men on rickety folding chairs bathed in baleful hospital light. From Wordnik.com. [The Goal by Matthew Licht] Reference
No dice ... meaning he did not, in fact, know from "baleful" despite being all this. From Wordnik.com. [Acephalous] Reference
A baleful, unwavering gleam distinguished his glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Mary had been swayed by Mignon's baleful personality. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Mary must be rescued from her baleful influence at once. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
The man breathed heavily, his baleful gaze fixed on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
I feared, the "luck of the Le Moynes" and their baleful motto. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He looked up at Nan with a baleful, beseeching expression. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
Cameras pan to the baleful looks on little Jade and Ruby's faces. From Wordnik.com. [The imposter Redskinette: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#7, Sept. 23)] Reference
The baleful idea that truth is nudity beset me on every occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This notion was so baleful that Gustavus felt it best to answer it. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The fighting had ended, but its baleful, destructive legacy lingered on. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard] Reference
Bin Laden's No. 2, Zawahiri, is just as baleful toward the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Into Thin Air] Reference
Turning, Esther beheld a look of baleful resentment in the black-fringed eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
It matters that his love for Lucy Mercer drove Eleanor Roosevelt to baleful despair. From Wordnik.com. [American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton] Reference
The idea of God's justice seems to have cast a baleful shadow over men's hearts and lives. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
As I kneel beside her on the floor, the drowsy rotweiler throws me a baleful look. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Safe] Reference
Danube; but the baleful Mussulman has checked all enterprise wherever he has had any foothold. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
I knew what was passing through her mind: she had suddenly become aware of my baleful existence. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
They, in short, are less bound by the need to perilously co-exist with baleful, predatory, majorities. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
'Lo, discord is ripened at thy desire into baleful war: tell them now to mix in amity and join alliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He wondered whether he were not becoming the sport of the same baleful influence; if, like the Lamias and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With this use then likewise they bade Latinus proclaim war on the Aeneadae, and unclose the baleful gates. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Their rush to dishonest exploitation of the Newsweek/Princeton poll is a baleful example of where they've gone. From Wordnik.com. [Joshua Treviño: Why the President's Partisans Talk Down Islam] Reference
The earlier story of Alboin's youth, if less valuable for emphatic tragedy, being without the baleful figure of a. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The boat which has been tethered to the weird, baleful shore is set free, and sails toward the glories of the morning. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
And hello again to the thought that something more baleful and petty lurks behind this coalition's outward show of wondrous amity. From Wordnik.com. [Don't make Guido Fawkes a fall guy for Hague's woes. It's just politics] Reference
In interviews over the years, he has been baleful, apocalyptic, charming, abrasive, squirrelly and profound, depending on his mood. From Wordnik.com. [A Primitive's Portfolio] Reference
The realism of the Stuart stump picture was never so atrocious as this baleful invention, which was as meretricious as a waxwork show. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
It may extend its baleful influences far and wide; and transmit them, with all their innumerable evils, from generation to generation. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The mark of Billy's punch was still evident in his swollen jaw, and he shot a baleful glance at Frank as he passed by him on the way out. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
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