Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a forbidding manner; repellently.
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- adverb in a
forbidding manner
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- adverb in an unpleasant or menacing manner
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Examples
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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.
chron.com Chronicle Alison Cook 2010
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They're in the desert, with only forbiddingly craggy mountains in the distance; what are they doing out there?
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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These command most of the attention in the auction market today, and are largely responsible for the image of Bordeaux as a wine that is forbiddingly unapproachable in its youth—and just as forbiddingly priced.
Getting to the Bottom of Bordeaux Lettie Teague 2011
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At the meeting itself, Mr. Allaire stared at her forbiddingly and moved on.
Views From the Top Alan Murray 2011
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If that doesn't scare you, consider this: It's forbiddingly expensive, as are all of the first-growth Bordeaux.
A Towering Bordeaux Jay McInerney 2011
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They're in the desert, with only forbiddingly craggy mountains in the distance; what are they doing out there?
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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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.
Wayne's new world Barney Ronay 2010
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This scenario seems forbiddingly difficult to pull off.
Idol Meter final four: Which singer can out-sparkle Crystal? 2010
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They're in the desert, with only forbiddingly craggy mountains in the distance; what are they doing out there?
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths.
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