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adjective. Suggesting or threatening harm or evil.

adjective. Causing or intending harm or evil; wicked.

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adjective. Portending misfortune or disaster; ominous.

adjective. Attended by or causing misfortune or disaster.

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adjective. On the left side; left.

adjective. Situated on or being the side of a shield on the wearer's left and the observer's right.

Left, as opposed to right; on the left side; specifically, in heraldry, noting the left-hand side of the person who carries the shield on his arm (therefore the right-hand side of the spectator): the sinister part of the escutcheon is opposed to the dexter part (see dexter).

On or toward the left or unlucky side; hence, of ill omen; inauspicious; threatening or suggesting evil.

Bringing evil; harmful; malign; unfortunate in results.

Unpleasant; disagreeable.

Malicious; evil; base; wrong.

adjective. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.

adjective. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side.

adjective. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt.

adjective. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger.

adjective. See under Bar, n.

adjective. an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini.

adjective. See under Escutcheon.

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adjective. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).

adjective. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.

adjective. Of the left side.

adjective. On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.

adjective. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

adjective. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

adjective. on or starting from the wearer's left

adjective. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

"Even the English word sinister comes from the Latin sinestra, which means left."

dexter  

bend sinister  sinister aspect  sinister canton  sinister diagonal  

alarming  evil  sinister chief  sinistral  

minister  

gloomy  grim  ominous  peculiar  tragic  

adverse  amoral  antagonistic  apocalyptic  backhand