threatening
adjective
tending or intended to menace.
nonthreateningly
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a word derived from
threatening.
Example Sentences
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And then, nonthreateningly, he’d say, Let me try.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
He’s a pleasingly inoffensive, nonthreateningly masculine, apple-pie type, but like so many all-American commodities, there’s more lurking in that designation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
And as Jerry, the nonthreateningly named but unmistakably lethal bloodsucker in "Fright Night," Farrell looks like he's having the time of his 400-year-old life.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2011
