Definition of minatory in English:

minatory

adjective ˈmɪnəˌt(ə)ri

formal

Expressing or conveying a threat.
〈正式〉威吓的，威胁性的
he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging
他不大可能被威胁性摇摇手指所吓退。
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.
〈正式〉威吓的，威胁性的
he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging
他不大可能被威胁性摇摇手指所吓退。
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.

单词	minatory
释义	Definition of minatory in English: minatory adjective ˈmɪnəˌt(ə)ri formal Expressing or conveying a threat. 〈正式〉威吓的，威胁性的 he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging 他不大可能被威胁性摇摇手指所吓退。 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. 〈正式〉威吓的，威胁性的 he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging 他不大可能被威胁性摇摇手指所吓退。 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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