menacing
adjective
expressing or serving as a menace or threat: menacing language.
unmenacing
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a word derived from
menacing.
Example Sentences
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Even the images dealing with domination are composed with a lightness of touch and salting of humour that is decidedly unmenacing.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Some of the caravan inhabitants opened their doors and began to follow us, in what was a not unmenacing manner.
From BBC ● May 17, 2013
What I had remembered as fast, grimy realism now felt languid, gentle and unmenacing: the baddies were like cartoon characters and the violence really wasn't very violent.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
Nearly all of the original Revolutionary Command Council were eventually ousted from office and in 1969 Nasser chose the unmenacing Sadat as his Vice President.
From Time Magazine Archive
That must be the top of the Castle Rock, distant and unmenacing.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
