Ominously
['ɑmənəsli]
Examples
- He led the way out, wagging his head and growling ominously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From first to last, he was ominously polite, and ominously silent. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I looked at her, with my mind full of that other lovely face which had so ominously recalled her to my memory on the terrace by moonlight. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had been ominously heard of, through the play-bills, as a faithful Black, in connection with a little girl of noble birth, and a monkey. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Xenia