[ US /ˈsɪnɪstɝ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪnɪstɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. on or starting from the wearer's left
    bar sinister
  2. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
    Darth Vader of the dark side
    his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
    a dark purpose
    dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
    the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
    a black lie
    black deeds
  3. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
    ominous rumblings of discontent
    his threatening behavior
    forbidding thunderclouds
    a baleful look
    his tone became menacing
    the situation became ugly
    a sinister smile
    sinister storm clouds
    ugly black clouds
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How To Use sinister In A Sentence

  • Mukesh Tiwari, a self styled 'baadshah khan' kind of character lives in an apartment where a maulvi kinds, a Chandraswami clone and a stray politician wine and dine and make their sinister plans. Glamsham.com - bollywood updates
  • How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
  • Once the victim's mind had "snapped" into cult mode, the unsnapping requires a massive assault on the victim's mind to untangle the coded messages injected into it by the sinister forces of the cult leader. Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
  • The sinister atmosphere of the place left an indelible imprint on my memory.
  • I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.
  • But before we declare this the happy ending of a feminist fairytale, we must look at the more sinister afterword.
  • A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
  • People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery. Damn them « BuzzMachine
  • He saw him gather five of the soldiers into a huddle and with his subtle, sinister voice began to speak again.
  • But just as terror is about to knock something shifts, perhaps enough consciousness raised that a sinister energy is alchemize, and terror turns and retreats from the door. My Journey to Report on the Horrors and Hope in the Congo (Part VI)
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