Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Wrong and threatening are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Wrong
Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Threatening and wrong are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Wrong".
Both words in one sentence
- Eureka: Sheriff Jack Carter is one for the entire town, since it's entirely populated by Mad Scientists, and they predictably lack the common sense that would keep some of their experiments from going wrong and threatening the town.
Source: Only Sane Man / Live-Action TV - Jake Stone (an art historian) went into a museum and berated the staff for hanging paintings in the wrong place, threatening physical violence violence against the staff.
Source: Artifact Domination -
Jake Stone (a burly art historian) went to a museum, saw paintings hung in the wrong collections and started to rearrange them, all the while threatening physical violence against the staff for getting it wrong and casually ignoring the guards pointing their guns at him.
Source: Series / The Librarians (2014)
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