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.

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Sinister Quotations

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

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.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes de Mille

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

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber

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

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
Robert B. Laughlin

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!
Robert Crumb

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy

Sinister Translations

sinister in Italian is nefasto
sinister in Spanish is aciago, siniestro, tetrico
sinister in Swedish is ondskefull

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