threateningly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
13

Definition of threateningly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a threatening manner.
    “He tried to glare threateningly, but how much of a threat can you be when you are naked AND tied to a bed?”
    “As the beasts surrounded her, chattering threateningly the while they goaded her with their cudgels and beat and kicked her with their fists and feet, she lay with closed eyes, praying for the merciful death that she knew alone could give her surcease from suffering[.]”

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Etymology

From threatening + -ly.

Words you can make from threateningly

200+ playable · top: HEARTENINGLY (19 pts)

Best play hearteningly 19 points

12-letter words

1 word

11-letter words

1 word

10-letter words

7 words

9-letter words

31 words

8-letter words

85 words

7-letter words

74 words

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