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Definition of balefully adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

balefully

adverb
 
/ˈbeɪlfəli/
 
/ˈbeɪlfəli/
(literary)
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  1. in a way that seems to threaten to do something evil or to hurt somebody
    • The bird glared balefully at us.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryBalefully is used with these verbs:
    • glare
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