People who are left handed might feel unlucky having to use a desk designed for right handers, but there probably wasn't any sinister, or evil, intent behind the design. Or was there?
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Adjective S.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clo
Adjective S.
on or starting from the wearer''s left; "bar sinister"
Adjective S.
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the sc
a.
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; --
opposed to dexter, or right.
a.
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; --
the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister
influences.
a.
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity;
perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
a.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger;
as, a sinister countenance.
Sinister
My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's
All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.3.
Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.4.
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Usage Examples
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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