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sinister | American Dictionary

sinister
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈsɪn·ə·stər/
evil, or suggesting that something evil is going to happen:
She has dark, sinister eyes that make you nervous when she looks at you.

Examples of sinister

sinister
Her despair tilted over into a more sinister rhetoric.
In either case, professionalism suggests sinister abstractness - morbidly in the former, ridiculously in the latter.
He insisted that valuing houses separately from land was impractical and a sinister scheme to favor urban elites.
And the old streets, while no longer smelly or sinister, are so clogged with vehicles that the pedestrian once again runs an obstacle course.
At any time in history acronyms can hide more sinister realities condensed in them.
Domestically too, those who worked to reduce the birth-rate had a sinister motive - to restrain the growth of particular social groups and particular races.
Of course, it would not be realistic to expect an effective transnational anti-corruption campaign to target any and every 'sinister practice'.
Instead, there were rival clans, sinister characters of all descriptions and, last but not least, witch trials.
Domestically, too, those who worked to reduce the birthrate had a sinister motive - to restrain the growth of particular social groups and particular races.
By giving him a sinister look, the beard apparent under his poorly made-up translucent skin complicated matters further.
The recapitulation introduced a fleeting nocturnal, sinister mood and a peremptory, throwaway ending complemented the opening joke.
Tilted slightly to the right, it acquired sinister meaning on the world scene.
It was during the 1930s that the world became a much more sinister place and a scientific understanding of peace and war more necessary.
This tragic situation is made worse by its sinister consequences, microbial evolution of resistance to antibiotics.
But some free-will theists seem almost as leery of clear vision and compelling evidence as they are of more sinister forms of compulsion.
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