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Definition of "forbiddingly" [forbiddingly]

  • In a forbidding manner (adverb)

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Use "forbiddingly" in a sentence
  • "Saturday night, the kitchen may send out a clunker such as forbiddingly dry lamb vindaloo, or a coconut-sauced Goan prawn and crab curry that sounded so fetching and tasted so cloying and bland."
  • "One of the defining images was the portrait shot of a player signing for his club, putting pen to paper in the family parlour while being loomed over, frowned at and generally dominated by some forbiddingly overcoated managerial paterfamilias."
  • "They're in the desert, with only forbiddingly craggy mountains in the distance; what are they doing out there?"