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; withsinister foreboding
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- adverb in an ominous manner
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Examples
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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
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For example, things begin ominously in Matt Brighton's DVD Authority review of To Catch a Thief.
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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.
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Its title ominously suggests that Only One Flo Part 2 will soon be upon us - and that really isn't necessary.
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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
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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."
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Ironically—and ominously—only Anglo-Floridians raised serious objections.24
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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