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Definition
evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impression
- Is there nothing dark or sinister anywhere?Chapter 6 — Maule's Well (64% in)
- Nevertheless, in the artist's deep, thoughtful, all-observant eyes, there was, now and then, an expression, not sinister, but questionable; as if he had some other interest in the scene than a stranger, a youthful and unconnected adventurer, might be supposed to have.Chapter 10 — The Pyncheon Garden (89% in)
- She instinctively knew, it may be, that some sinister or evil potency was now striving to pass her barriers; nor would she decline the contest.Chapter 13 — Alice Pyncheon (69% in)
- But before retiring, Jaffrey bethought himself of the evidence, in these ransacked drawers, that some one had visited the chamber with sinister purposes.Chapter 21 — The Departure (28% in)
There are no more uses of "sinister" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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