Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ominous manner; with significant coincidence; significantly; with ill omen; portentously.

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  • adverb in an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding

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  • adverb in an ominous manner

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Examples

  • Maya leaves the room causally as if to visit the ladies 'and the cameras keep zooming in ominously on her naked mannequin.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross Una LaMarche 2010

  • For example, things begin ominously in Matt Brighton's DVD Authority review of To Catch a Thief.

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/11. 2007

  • And now, as we emerge from the pine-wood, a new Dolomite – a huge, dark, mournful-looking mountain ominously splashed with deep red stains – rises suddenly into towering prominence upon our left, and seems almost to overhang the road.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Its title ominously suggests that Only One Flo Part 2 will soon be upon us - and that really isn't necessary.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Gazi said Tshabalala-Msimang had said "ominously" that AZT was too expensive, that it might have long-term side effects and that there should be no regrets in 15 years time.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • "At 10 percent of U.S. GDP (and rising" ominously "), our federal deficit" looks more like the Greek deficit than the California deficit, "he wrote.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • He saw the conflict, now so ominously coming up over the horizon, as one between the living wholeness of the German conception and the dying divisiveness of English pluralism.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • More ominously, the new law allowed the president to alone decide when to acquire and exercise that power.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • In one video on the BMSD website, an archetypal "angry young Muslim" begins ominously, "I have a message for those who insult Islam," before adding: "Let's agree to disagree."

    Muslim women: beyond the stereotype 2011

  • Ironically—and ominously—only Anglo-Floridians raised serious objections.24

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

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