Both Uses
sinister
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The Nickel Boys
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- Even the most innocent scene—a mess hall or the football field—came out sinister, no photographic trickery necessary.†
p. 6.1 *sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
- Horror comics, he'd noticed, delivered two kinds of punishment—completely undeserved, and sinister justice for the wicked.†
p. 73.6
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.