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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 For·bid·ding a. Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
 Syn: -- Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive; repulsive; odious; abhorrent.
 -- For*bid*ding*ly, adv. -- For*bid*ding*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 forbiddingly
      adv : in an unpleasant or menacing manner; "it was forbiddingly
            dark in the corridor"