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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
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Good Cop/Bad Cop - Similarly, threatening Fluttershy's friends is a good way to very quickly get on her bad side, as Cashmere later finds out.
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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.
Source: Moving the Goalposts
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