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forebodingly
adverb
literaryuk /fɔːˈbəʊ.dɪŋ.li/ us /fɔːrˈboʊ.dɪŋ.li/
in a way that suggests that something very bad is going to happen soon:
Dark clouds hung forebodingly overhead.
We heard the sirens piercing the night air forebodingly.
Early in the story, she writes forebodingly: "There is a moment when you realize that everything will soon be taken from you."
He stood in the doorway and forebodingly announced that he would be dining at our house the next evening.
The ship, still some distance away, loomed forebodingly on the horizon.
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