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
Wicked and threatening are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wicked" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Wicked
Wicked adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.
Usage example: the contention that prostitution is not a victimless crime but a wicked assault on family values
Threatening and wicked are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Wicked".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- unpleasant and threatening
- unpleasant and wicked
- offensive and threatening
- offensive and wicked
- baleful and threatening
- baleful and wicked
- sinister and threatening
- sinister and wicked
- nasty and threatening
- nasty and wicked
- dangerous and threatening
- dangerous and wicked
- evil and threatening
- evil and wicked
Both words in one sentence
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His killer, Lord Kira, is allied with a wicked witch (Rinko Kikuchi) who controls supernatural forces threatening the land which Kai and the ronin must defeat.The first trailer can be seen here.
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No Song for the Wicked: Lord Maliss does not get a musical number and he's certainly a lot more threatening than his funny minion Scowl, who does.
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In the Korean animated series Dooly The Little Dinosaur, a dinosaur take a bite out of a wicked witch's backside, exposing her underpants to the villagers she was threatening , before being chased by the monster.
Source: Butt Biter
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