menacing• Very polite but - well - sort of quietly menacing.• There was something strange and rather menacing about the way she spoke.• Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago.• One of the guards gave a low, menacinglaugh.• Karpov is gradually building up the kind of position he likes with two bishops and a potentially menacingmass of centralpawns.• It was as if menacing music had been played in a film, accompanying a scene of innocenthappiness.• After the break Smithproved the menacingplayer for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence.• the dark, menacingsky• The house grew still but it was a menacing stillness, like that of a cat about to spring.• The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing.• This is the really menacing thing because in their obsession with proving themselves, they are pulling us all towards destruction.• a deep, menacingvoice