All 12 Uses
sinister
in
The Border Legion
(Edited)
- Silhouetted against the red of the sunset they made dark and sinister figures.
Chpt 1 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- It cast a baleful and sinister color upon the hard faces there.
Chpt 7
- Except for that one abrupt and sinister move of Gulden's—that of a natural man beyond deceit—there was no word, no look, no act at which Joan could have been offended.
Chpt 8
- By and by he moved, approached the fire, stood one moment in the dying ruddy glow, his great breadth and bulk magnified, with all about him vague and shadowy, but the more sinister for that.
Chpt 8
- What a dark, sinister, plotting figure!
Chpt 11
- The inside of that gloomy cabin took on another aspect; there was a meaning in the saddles and bridles and weapons on the wall; that book and pencil and gun seemed to contain the dark deeds of wild men; and all about the bandit hovered a power sinister in its menace to the unknown and distant toilers for gold.
Chpt 11
- Only in Kells, under his radiance, could be felt the dark and sinister plot.
Chpt 13
- The sun went down red, leaving a sinister shadow over the gulch, growing darker and darker.
Chpt 13
- Joan found that in spite of her horror at the sinister and deadly nature of the bandit's enterprise she could not avoid an absorbing interest in his fortunes.
Chpt 14
- He had one hand under his coat and his position had a sinister suggestion.
Chpt 16
- Not only did this possibility seem lost upon the bandit leader, but also the sinister intent of Gulden and his associates.
Chpt 17
- She pictured over that sinister scene of the dangling forms; but no—Kells would never end that way.
Chpt 17
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.