All 4 Uses of
sinister
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
Chpt 6sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- Was he the agent of others or had he some sinister design of his own?
Chpt 7 *
- Consider the long sequence of incidents which have all pointed to some sinister influence which is at work around us.
Chpt 10
- He was a son of that Rodger Baskerville, the younger brother of Sir Charles, who fled with a sinister reputation to South America, where he was said to have died unmarried.
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(sinister) evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impression
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely and only in very old usage, sinister can refer to the left side of something.