sinister

sinister
01. The [sinister] voice on the other end of the telephone warned me to stop my investigation immediately.
02. The new Queen has a [sinister] plan to poison the King so that her son can take over the throne.
03. The villain laughed [sinisterly] as he tied the poor woman to the railroad tracks.
04. Frodo and Sam were approaching the [sinister] lands of Mordor, where the Dark Lord ruled.
05. In the 1960s, the CIA apparently made a [sinister] plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro, using an exploding cigar.
06. The leader of the group was surrounded by huge, [sinister]-looking thugs.
07. He is a [sinister] figure, like a Mafia hit man or something.
08. He is a [sinister]-looking fellow. I wouldn't trust him.
09. The dark clouds, and heavy rain falling outside both seemed to add to the [sinister] atmosphere in the old mansion.
10. The three men are suspected of being involved in a [sinister] plot to kill the King.
11. The alien life forms in the movie were very [sinister]-looking creatures who were trying to take control of the earth.
12. The man received a [sinister] note warning that if he talked to the police about what he had seen, something unfortunate might happen.
13. The candidate says he simply wants to end immigration abuses, but I think he has a more [sinister] goal. I think he is racist and wants to stop non-white immigration to this country.
14. She loves to read mystery stories full of [sinister] characters and complex murder cases.
15. Hermann Hesse once remarked that people with courage and character always seem [sinister] to the rest.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Sinister — is originally a Latin term for left or to the left (and by extension, left handedness), and is used in heraldry to refer to the left of the bearer of the arms, and to the right by the viewer s eyes. It is often used to mean evil.Sinister may also …   Wikipedia

  • sinister — sinister,[/p] baleful, malign, malefic, maleficent all mean seriously threatening, portending, or promising evil or disaster, usually imminent or already initiated evil or disaster. Sinister is the most commonly employed of these words and the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Sinister — Sin is*ter (s[i^]n [i^]s*t[ e]r; 277), a. Note: [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.] 1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; opposed to {dexter}, or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Sinister — Жанр дэт метал Страна …   Википедия

  • sinister — [sin′is tər] adj. [ME sinistre < L sinister, left hand, or unlucky (side), orig. lucky (side) < IE base * sene , to prepare, achieve > Sans sánīyān, more favorable: early Roman augurs faced south, with the east (lucky side) to the left,… …   English World dictionary

  • sinister — early 15c., prompted by malice or ill will, from O.Fr. sinistre contrary, unfavorable, to the left, from L. sinister left, on the left side (opposite of dexter), perhaps from root *sen and meaning properly the slower or weaker hand [Tucker], but… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Sinister — Allgemeine Informatione …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sinister — (lat.), 1) link; Sinistrae tibiae, s.u. Flöte; 2) linkisch, verkehrt; 3) ungünstig, unglücklich; dagegen in den Auspicien der Römer glücklich, von guter Vorbedeutung …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Sinister — (lat.), link, linkisch; bei Vorzeichen in der Religionssprache der Römer ursprünglich glückverheißend, später nach griechischer Theorie unheilverkündend …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • sinister — I adjective alarming, baleful, baneful, blameworthy, censurable, cold blooded, comminatory, conscienceless, contemptible, corrupt, creepy, cruel, culpable, dangerous, demoniac, demoniacal, deserving of condemnation, designing, despiteful,… …   Law dictionary

  • sinister — [adj] nasty, menacing adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, blackhearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic,… …   New thesaurus

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