adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aggressive/violent/threatening
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His behavior became increasingly violent.
an angry/threatening gesture
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One of the men made a threatening gesture, and I ran.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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To subvert them would be to incite peasant revolts even more threatening than those which punctuated the eighteenth century.
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She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.
■ NOUN
behaviour
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A second possibility is that the use of violence itself amounts to threatening behaviour .
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Two Haverhill men have been charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons.
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Magistrates fined both defendants £100 for threatening behaviour .
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It created other offences - violent disorder, affray and threatening behaviour .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"You listen to me!" he said in a threatening voice.
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threatening telephone calls
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Avoid sudden or threatening movements around the birds.
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Before the attack I'd received several threatening phone calls.
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He was arrested for threatening behaviour and using abusive language.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After Boro's only real threatening first-half attempt, Bernie Slaven shot across the face of the goal from an angle.
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I hummed a little tune, even as the ghosts gathered round me, silent and threatening .
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Oxford's bowling was never threatening and looked rather ordinary when Glendenen and Parker began to hurry after a quiet first half-hour.
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These threatening contacts are of two kinds: the difficult and the sympathetic.
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When an attachment has been formed, there is a person the baby can turn to in threatening situations.
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When taken collectively these acts signify a deeper, more threatening tendency.