All 4 Uses of
sinister
in
Bleak House
- Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimneypiece, it throws a broad bend-sinister of light that strikes down crookedly into the hearth and seems to rend it.
Chpt 10-12 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- Mr. Guppy suspects everybody who enters on the occupation of a stool in Kenge and Carboy's office of entertaining, as a matter of course, sinister designs upon him.
Chpt 19-21
- On the speckled side of his face he has no eyebrow, and on the other side he has a bushy black one, which want of uniformity gives him a very singular and rather sinister appearance.
Chpt 19-21
- "I should be glad," says Mrs. Snagsby after contemplating his increased confusion with a severe and sinister smile, "if you would come home with me; I think you may be safer there, Mr. Snagsby, than anywhere else."
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(sinister) evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impression