Menacing and Predatory

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Menacing adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.

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Predatory and menacing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Predatory" instead an adjective "Menacing".

Nearby Words: menace, menaced, menacingly

Predatory adjective - Living by killing and eating other animals.

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Menacing and predatory are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Menacing" instead an adjective "Predatory".

Nearby Words: predator, predacious, predating

Circus of Fear: The "Carnival of Rust." The Carnival is run down and creepy, and the staff is menacing and vaguely predatory.

Source: Music / Poets of the Fall
He steals an ice cream cart by approaching the camera in a menacing, inappropriately predatory fashion as it fades to black.

Source: Memetic Molester / Animated Films
Poets of the Fall's "Carnival of Rust." The Carnival is run down and creepy, and the staff is menacing and vaguely predatory.

Source: Circus of Fear

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