1. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
   - baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening

See also: alarming

• character actor
• character assassination
• character printer
• character reference
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• character witness
• character-at-a-time printer
• characterisation
• characterise
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• Charadrii
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• Charadrius
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• Charadrius morinellus