sin|is|ter

sin|is|ter
sin|is|ter «SIHN uh stuhr», adjective.
1. showing ill will; threatening: »

a sinister rumor, a sinister look.

SYNONYM(S): ominous, inauspicious.
2. bad; evil; dishonest: »

a sinister plan. I hope…that you'll…not impute to me any impertinence or sinister design (Oliver Goldsmith).

 SYNONYM(S): base.
3. bringing evil; disastrous; unfortunate: »

Such a life was sinister to the intellect, and sinister to the heart (Hawthorne).

 SYNONYM(S): unlucky.
4. on the left; left: »

My mother's blood runs in my dexter cheek and this sinister bounds in my father's (Shakespeare).

5. Heraldry. situated to the right of the one looking at the escutcheon: »

sinister base, sinister chief.

╂[< Latin sinister left (from the belief that omens seen on the left side were unlucky)]
–sin´is|ter|ly, adverb.
–sin´is|ter|ness, noun.

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