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sinister
in
Inkheart
(Edited)

No, too sinister.

sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
And hard as Meggie tried to see something sinister about him, she couldn't, not in the pale morning light.
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And then perhaps you won't think fire's so sinister.
It's not that I think it's sinister.
It looked sinister over there, and the few houses left seemed to be drowning in the gathering dusk.
Sometimes the story took a very dark turn, and whenever the suspense got too much, your mother put a finger to her lips, and I read more quietly, although we were sure you were too busy with your own books to listen to a sinister story that you wouldn't have understood anyway.
He was clutching a number of books to his chest with his left arm as if they offered some protection from the stares turned on him from all sides and the sinister place to which he had been brought.
It was somewhat difficult to persuade the driver he must ignore the road barrier when he came to it, but luckily he had never believed any of the sinister stories that were told of the village.
The birds, dogs, and cats who had emerged from the Shadow had not hung around, but had long ago disappeared into the surrounding hills, while a few fairies and two of the little glass men, enchanted by the broom blossoms, the scent of rosemary, and the narrow alleys where the ancient stones whispered their stories to them, decided to make the once sinister village their home.

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.