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What (who) is minatory - definition
minatory
a.
Threatening, menacing, minacious.
minatory
['m?n??t(?)ri]
¦ adjective formal expressing or conveying a threat.
Origin
C16: from late L. minatorius, from minat-, minari 'threaten'.
Minatory
·adj Threatening; menacing.
Examples of use of minatory
1. I lose essential things keys, money, children with such astounding fluency that this imaginary scene takes on the minatory nature of a prediction.
2. When reading the ID card bill I am constantly struck by its minatory tone – the threats of fines and the general contempt for the average citizen.
3. In a summary of his minatory approach to both countries as the US sought to persuade them to abandon their nuclear programmes, Mr Bolton once said÷ I dont do carrots.
4. The Kurds (who are busy ethnically cleansing their own enclave, as The Washington Post reports, and imprisoning people for criticizing the corruption of Kurdish leaders, as The New York Times reports) are happy for the Americans to plant vast, minatory fortresses down south to keep the troublesome Arabs in line.