Good and Threatening

Good

Good adjective - Based on sound reasoning or information.

Threatening is an antonym for good.

Nearby Words: goodness, goodly, goody

Threatening

Threatening adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting

Good is an antonym for threatening in menacing topic.

Nearby Words: threaten, threatened, threat

Both words in one sentence

  • Good Cop/Bad Cop Similar to the Pink Panther example below, Gargoylemon of Digimon Xros Wars attempts to be both the good cop and the bad cop, alternatively threatening the captured heroes and offering them DigiNoir.
  • Similarly, threatening Fluttershy's friends is a good way to very quickly get on her bad side, as Cashmere later finds out.
  • Moving the Goalposts Katniss showed them up by threatening suicide with Peeta, forcing them to make good on the original promise so they'd have someone to crown a victor instead of a martyr.
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