What's the difference between minacious and minatory?

Minacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Threatening; menacing.

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Minatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The original referred to a "minatory committee" where "monetary committee" was meant.
  • (2) Nebraska was Willa Cather’s territory, and its austere beauty and minatory vastness suit Jones’s directorial temperament.
  • (3) As one of those he blamed for bringing him down in his wild, minatory article on Sunday , I’m happy to join Blob Pride.
  • (4) No horror movie made since has been able to operate outside The Shining's deep, black, minatory shadow.
  • (5) It was these that JG Ballard noticed sprouting among the leylandii along his own tarmac backwater in the early 2000s, and which led him to write Kingdom Come , his final novel – a characteristically minatory vision of an Ingerland driven into the arms of bigotry and violent civil unrest by sheer boredom.

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