Both Uses
sinister
in
The Girl on the Train
(Edited)
- This is not necessarily sinister, I have had them before, usually from when I've fallen and someone has helped me up.
p. 51.6 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- I walk quickly along the shingle, past the beach huts, so pretty in daylight but now sinister, each one of them a hiding place.
p. 394.3
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.