All 4 Uses

sinister
in
The Shining
(Edited)

At last he crept back into his bed and pulled the blankets up and watched the shadows thrown by the alien streetlight turn into a sinuous jungle filled with flesh-eating plants that wanted only to slip around him, squeeze the life out of him, and drag him down into a blackness where one sinister word flashed in red: REDRUM.
Chpt 1

sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
It gave Jack a curious shrinking feeling, as if his life force had dwindled to a mere spark while the hotel and the grounds had suddenly doubled in size and become sinister, dwarfing them with sullen, inanimate power.
Chpt 2 *
His clothes were in flames, his skin had acquired a dark and sinister tan that was growing darker by the moment, his hair was a burning bush.
Chpt 5
Some of it was slipping through, flooding his brain with sinister subliminal images.
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (sinister)
evil or harmful; or making an evil or frightening impression
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely and only in very old usage, sinister can refer to the left side of something.