[ adv ] in a menacing manner <adv.all> the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly
Menacingly \Men"a*cing*ly\, adv. In a threatening manner.
Dressed in golden pantaloons, Simone Alaimo was quite a swaggering sultan, even if his coloratura technique wasn't nearly as polished as the teeth he flashed so menacingly at one point that a retainer fell down in dazzled dread.
The Bosnian Serb army blamed Moslem-led Bosnian government forces and responded menacingly to the carnage near a demilitarised zone patrolled by the UN by warning it could trigger an explosion of fighting in the region.