Synonyms:
baleful, baneful
Meaning: deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"
Usage examples
THE BALEFUL SACRIFICE
THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out, and bright homes burned.
His companions in the baleful work seemed to have taken on something of his feeling.
Even the figures of the baleful group were there, though dimly seen as through a veil--a shadowy veil.
One curse of negro slavery was, and one part of its baleful heritage is, that it poisoned the fountains of human sympathy.
But a year of baleful experience destroyed a great many illusions, and in the election of 1838 the subject of internal improvements was treated with much more reserve by candidates.
It looked like the moon when it rises from behind clouds, and glows red and lurid from the horizon; and so this glowed, but not with the steady light of the moon, for the light was fitful, and sometimes flashed into a baleful brightness, which soon subsided into a dimmer lustre.
Its metal knobs, marking the degrees of intensity of the current it controlled, caught the light and blinked like so many small, baleful eyes. Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.