All 4 Uses of
sinister
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He knits his thick gray brows and his eyes gleam with a sinister fire.
Chpt 5 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- …my account would be to some extent superfluous, because in the speeches for the prosecution and for the defense the whole course of the evidence was brought together and set in a strong and significant light, and I took down parts of those two remarkable speeches in full, and will quote them in due course, together with one extraordinary and quite unexpected episode, which occurred before the final speeches, and undoubtedly influenced the sinister and fatal outcome of the trial.
Chpt 12
- Grigory's description of the scene at the dinner-table, when Dmitri had burst in and beaten his father, threatening to come back to kill him, made a sinister impression on the court, especially as the old servant's composure in telling it, his parsimony of words and peculiar phraseology, were as effective as eloquence.
Chpt 12
- The picture drawn by the witness was a gloomy and sinister one, and greatly strengthened the case for the prosecution.
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(sinister) evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impression