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险恶 — meaning in English

xiǎn è

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English meaning

  • baleful adj Suggesting that something bad is about to happen; threatening.
  • grim adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
  • macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.
  • sinister adj Suggesting evil intent or hidden danger.

Senses

险恶 is used for these senses in English:

  • baleful Portending evil; ominous.
  • grim Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  • macabre Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
  • sinister Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).

baleful — full definition

  1. adj Suggesting that something bad is about to happen; threatening.
  2. adj Sad and full of suffering.
  3. adj Causing death; deadly.

grim — full definition

  1. adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
  2. adj Stern, harsh, or unyielding in expression or manner.
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