All 4 Uses of
sinister
in
Things Fall Apart
- Dangerous animals became even more sinister and uncanny in the dark.
p. 9.8sinister = dangerous or frightening
- 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.
p. 11.4sinister = frightening
- They had thrown down their waterpots and lain by the roadside expecting the sinister light to descend on them and kill them.
p. 104.7sinister = evil or frightening
- An evil forest was, therefore, alive with sinister forces and powers of darkness.
p. 148.8 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
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) Much more rarely and only in very old usage, sinister can refer to the left side of something.