as in sinister
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
that comment about downsizing from the company president sounded ominous
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Recent Examples of ominous
The film weaves elements of feng shui and traditional shamanism in its story of an ominous grave investigation.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
So there was an ominous feeling all day Thursday going into a game against Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Cale Makar after Brock Faber and Jonas Brodin joined Kirill Kaprizov (seven games and counting) and Jared Spurgeon (four games and counting) on the sideline.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Getty Villa Museum not on fire Dennis Romero Despite ominous imagery from the scene, the Los Angeles Fire Department said this evening that while flames have reached the famed Getty Villa property, the museum is not on fire.
—Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Others, shrouded in grays and yellows, cast an ominous pall.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
So there was an ominous feeling all day Thursday going into a game against Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Cale Makar after Brock Faber and Jonas Brodin joined Kirill Kaprizov (seven games and counting) and Jared Spurgeon (four games and counting) on the sideline.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Getty Villa Museum not on fire Dennis Romero Despite ominous imagery from the scene, the Los Angeles Fire Department said this evening that while flames have reached the famed Getty Villa property, the museum is not on fire.
—Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Others, shrouded in grays and yellows, cast an ominous pall.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ominous
Adjective
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The Alaska story represents Perkins’ tireless brainstorming of ways to help and also, perhaps, her blind spot to a more sinister history of American settler colonialism.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Jan. 2025
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After Season 1 introduced viewers to the offbeat, sinister world of Lumon Industries, the Innies that make up its workforce, and the Outies compartmentalizing their lives, Season 2 is now unfolding deeper, stranger intricacies that speak to how corporations deal with dissenters.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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That inter-zone between the two is where Lynch lived his entire professional life: in his paintings and writings, shorts and TV shows, and even his daily online weather reports, which somehow took on both a boyish and a menacing quality.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Onlookers captured them interacting and throwing paper planes at one another, all under the watchful eye of the Tillman’s menacing Milchick.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Matt Harrison, president of Kuka Home North America, which has a furniture manufacturing base in Monterrey, fears the future could be bleak.—
David Culver,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
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For many civilians, a future with both Israel and Hamas in the picture is bleak.—
Adam Rasgon,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Ominous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ominous. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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