"threateningly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From threatening + -ly.",
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      "form": "more threateningly",
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          "text": "He tried to glare threateningly, but how much of a threat can you be when you are naked AND tied to a bed?",
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          "ref": "1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194:",
          "text": "As the beasts surrounded her, chattering threateningly the while they goaded her with their cudgels and beat and kicked her with their fists and feet, she lay with closed eyes, praying for the merciful death that she knew alone could give her surcease from suffering[.]",
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "lang_code": "ca",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "amenaçadorament"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "uhkaavasti"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "ameazadoramente"
        },
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "minacciosamente"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "arcygroźnie"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "ameaçadoramente"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "sense": "In a threatening manner",
          "word": "amenazadoramente"
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  "word": "threateningly"
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  "etymology_text": "From threatening + -ly.",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "amenaçadorament"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "uhkaavasti"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "ameazadoramente"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "minacciosamente"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "arcygroźnie"
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "ameaçadoramente"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "In a threatening manner",
      "word": "amenazadoramente"
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  "word": "threateningly"
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