baleful

  • 21baleful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hostile; malignant; hurtful, injurious. See badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deadly, noxious, sinister, injurious; see harmful , sinister . See Synonym Study at sinister . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 22baleful — bale|ful [ beılfəl ] adjective MAINLY LITERARY showing evil, hate, or the intention to harm someone …

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  • 23baleful — adj. Wright’s L. P. p. 53 …

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  • 24baleful — bale·ful || beɪlfÊŠl adj. sinister; malicious, spiteful; furious; deadly …

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  • 25baleful — adjective menacing. ↘having a harmful effect. Derivatives balefully adverb balefulness noun Origin OE bealufull (see bale2, ful) …

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  • 26baleful — a. Hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, pernicious, calamitous, baneful, ruinous, deadly, fraught with evil …

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  • 27baleful — adj harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, afflictive; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous; detrimental, pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious; pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, malicious, malign, malignant, menacing; malevolent …

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  • 28baleful — bale·ful …

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  • 29baleful — UK [ˈbeɪlf(ə)l] / US [ˈbeɪlfəl] adjective mainly literary showing evil, hate, or the intention to harm someone …

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  • 30baleful — /ˈbeɪlfəl / (say baylfuhl) adjective 1. full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious. 2. Obsolete wretched; sorrowful. {Middle English; Old English bealofull} –balefully, adverb –balefulness, noun …

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