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Definition of Sinister |
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Sinister
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance. Related Definitions: As, Being, Boding, Corrupt, Countenance, Covert, Danger, Dexter, Disastrous, Dishonest, Evil, From, Hand, Harm, Inauspicious, Indicative, Indirection, Injurious, Left, Lurking, Obliquity, Of, On, Opposed, Or, Perverse, Regarded, Right, Side, Sinister, Springing, The, To, Unlucky, Wrong |
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Sinister Quotations
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. David Herbert Lawrence People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work. Robert Downey, Jr. While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. Jung Chang |
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Sinister Translations
sinister in Italian is nefasto sinister in Spanish is aciago, siniestro, tetrico sinister in Swedish is ondskefull |
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