baleful definition - baleful meaning - baleful synonyms - baleful in a sentence
adjective
| baleful definition 1 | deadly or sinister |
| baleful synonyms | baneful |
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| baleful usage | the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look |
baleful definition - baleful meaning - baleful synonyms - baleful usage
adjective
| baleful definition 2 | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| baleful synonyms | forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
| baleful antonyms | |
| baleful usage | 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 |
Quotes on baleful - Quotes about baleful
I can be baleful and truthful all at once.
— Richard Russo
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have baleful answers for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our baleful assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
— Paul Johnson
The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain baleful mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
baleful related expressions
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| Expression | Meaning |
| silver-tongued | baleful talker |
| spiel | baleful speech |
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