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- noun Plural form of
threatener .
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Examples
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RNC instructions to the disrupters, to the ‘threateners’?
Pill-Popping Goyische Radio Jockeys Need To Shut The Fuck Up About The Nazis | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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If through some sort of threats it becomes known to the authorities that there is danger of a meeting being broken up, they do not arrest the threateners, but forbid the others, the innocent, to hold the meeting, and what is more, the run-of-the-mill police mind is mighty proud of such wisdom.
Pill-Popping Goyische Radio Jockeys Need To Shut The Fuck Up About The Nazis | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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It seems to me that for individuals to give in to such threatening behavior is not a very good idea for society, because it means that most of the time, anyway the threateners will get what they want, and thus be encouraged to keep getting their way by making threats.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Illegal To Use Nonlethal Self-Defense If You Can Safely Retreat? 2007
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If physical threats were made, the threateners should be punished.
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The threateners are marching from failure to failure.
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Athisl, when he saw them, stood his ground on the sand, thinking it shameful to avoid threateners.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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-- Yes, yes, he understood; these fly-by-nights were threateners of the whole commonwealth; they must be hunted out like vermin -- just so; and he as a minister of the Gospel should be the first to assist.
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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I cut off, almost at a stroke, a horde of lobbyists, lawyers, threateners without influence, and hangers-on of various kinds.
The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889
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No threatened men live longer, as a class, than those who have themselves as threateners.
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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The whole company escorted the royal family back to their apartments; though it was remarked afterward that some of the soldiers, who on this occasion were the most vociferous in their exultation, were, before the end of the same week, among the most furious threateners and assailants of the palace.
The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876
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