Ghastly
Ghastly adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a ghastly crime that made local residents afraid to go out at night
Threatening and ghastly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Ghastly".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Ghastly and threatening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ghastly" instead an adjective "Threatening".
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Terms of Endangerment: Malkar taunts Felix with such nicknames as "my darling child", and Felix likes to call people who annoy him "darling." Usually before insulting them or even threatening them with ghastly death.
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Ghastly has a pretty threatening name, even though he's actually pretty nice.
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