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1 sinister
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments:
— Sinister storm clouds.
— A sinister smile.
synoniemen: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening.
Roget 239:
left-handed;
sinister;
sinistral,
sinistrorsal†,
sinistrorse†,
sinistrous†;
laevo- [Pref.].
Roget 649:
hurtful,
harmful,
scathful†,
baneful,
baleful;
injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous,
full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome;
prejudicial;
disserviceable†,
disadvantageous;
wide-wasting.
unlucky,
sinister;
obnoxious;
untoward,
disastrous.
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous;
malign
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
corrupting
etc.
(corrupt)
etc.
659;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive;
poisonous
etc.
(morbific)
657†;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361;
destructive
etc.
(destroying)
162;
inauspicious
etc.
859.
bad,
ill,
arrant,
as bad as bad can be,
dreadful;
horrid,
horrible;
dire;
rank,
peccant,
foul,
fulsome;
rotten,
rotten at the core.
vile,
base,
villainous;
mean
etc.
(paltry)
643;
injured
&c.;
deteriorated
etc.
659;
unsatisfactory,
exceptionable indifferent;
below par
etc.
(imperfect)
651;
illcontrived,
ill-conditioned;
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable;
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful
etc.
(painful)
830.
evil,
wrong;
depraved
etc.
945;
shocking;
reprehensible
etc.
(disapprove)
932.
hateful,
hateful as a toad;
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed,
confounded;
damned,
damnable;
infernal;
diabolic
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
unadvisable
etc.
(inexpedient)
647;
unprofitable
etc.
(useless)
645;
incompetent
etc.
(unskillful)
699;
irremediable
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
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2 sinister
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable:
— The scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.
synoniemen: black, dark.
Roget 945:
vicious;
sinful;
sinning
etc.
v.;
wicked,
iniquitous,
immoral,
unrighteous,
wrong,
criminal;
naughty,
incorrect;
unduteous†,
undutiful.
unprincipled,
lawless,
disorderly,
contra bonos mores [Lat.],
indecorous,
unseemly,
improper;
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish;
unworthy;
worthless;
desertless†;
disgraceful,
recreant;
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable;
discreditable,
disreputable;
Sadistic.
base,
sinister,
scurvy,
foul,
gross,
vile,
black,
grave,
facinorous†,
felonious,
nefarious,
shameful,
scandalous,
infamous,
villainous,
of a deep dye,
heinous;
flagrant,
flagitious;
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed.
Mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike†,
hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish.
miscreated†,
misbegotten;
demoralized,
corrupt,
depraved.
evil-minded,
evil-disposed;
ill-conditioned;
malevolent
etc.
907;
heartless,
graceless,
shameless,
virtueless;
abandoned,
lost to virtue;
unconscionable;
sunk in iniquity,
lost in iniquity,
steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate,
past praying for;
culpable,
reprehensible
etc.
(guilty)
947.
unjustifiable;
indefensible,
inexcusable;
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible†.
weak,
frail,
lax,
infirm,
imperfect;
indiscrete;
demoralizing,
degrading.
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3 sinister
On or starting from the wearer's left.
zelfstandig naamwoord
Roget 239:
sinistrality†;
left,
left hand,
a gauche;
sinister,
nearside†,
larboard,
port.
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