balefully

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balefully Meaning of "balefully"

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Definition(s):

  • (adv) in a baleful manner

Usage(s):

  1. Back in the fishing villages of Hokkaido, the Japanese vessels wait idly, their crews staring balefully out to sea.
  2. The bird's head is as big as a grapefruit, its yellow eyes glitter balefully.
  3. Curator Tom Otten reports that they have become short-tempered, stare balefully at strangers and deliberately make mistakes when doing tricks with their trainers.

Quotes

  • Bose says it was a perfectly plausible situation for nudity, "though hardly titillating since there were nine Malayalee crew members staring balefully at my efforts to simulate sexual arousal under the sheets."
    on Feb 3, 2004 By: Rahul Bose Source: Sify

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