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evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impressionMuch more rarely and only in very old usage, sinister can refer to the left side of something.
- They created a sinister plan to recruit terrorists.
sinister = evil
- In the movie, there was a sinister plot to kill people and harvest their organs.
- The storm clouds look sinister.
- Speaking quietly so that no one else would hear, Harry told the other two about Snape's sudden, sinister desire to be a Quidditch referee.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- An evil forest was, therefore, alive with sinister forces and powers of darkness.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- Just as she caught up with them Charles Wallace stopped and raised his hand, and there was the elevator again, its yellow light sinister.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- They had thrown down their waterpots and lain by the roadside expecting the sinister light to descend on them and kill them.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- I could see nothing sinister about him.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- The late afternoon light had a greenish cast which the blank windows reflected in a sinister way.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- When he began again, the anger on his face was gone, and in its place a sort of smile hovered, more terrible and more sinister than the anger.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Dangerous animals became even more sinister and uncanny in the dark.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- You looked as if you were bent on some sinister errand, and after you had left me I wondered whether I ought to have let you go.Henry James -- The American
- He fought against the Shade's sinister thoughts, weakly at first, then more strongly.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- At night, the cooking fires of squatters living in it gave the structure a sinister jack-o-lantern glow.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- Police cars and sinister-looking black vans blocked the curbs all around us.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- "It looks pretty sinister," he said.John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
sinister = evil
sinister = threatening
sinister = foreshadowing bad things
sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
sinister = evil or frightening
sinister = foreshadowing harm
sinister = evil or frightening
sinister = evil or frightening
sinister = evil or frightening
sinister = evil or frightening
sinister = frightening
sinister = dangerous or frightening
sinister = frightening
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