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sinister ['sinistә]

a. 不吉利的, 凶恶的, 左边的

[医] 左的

sinister

[ adj ]

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

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a baleful look

forbidding thunderclouds

his tone became menacing

ominous rumblings of discontent

sinister storm clouds

a sinister smile

his threatening behavior

ugly black clouds

the situation became ugly

stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

<adj.all>

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 scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him

on or starting from the wearer's left

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bar sinister

Sinister \Sin"is*ter\ (s[i^]n"[i^]s*t[~e]r; 277), a.

Note: [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as
Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F.
sinistre.]
1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; --
opposed to {dexter}, or {right}. ``Here on his sinister
cheek.'' --Shak.

My mother's blood
Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
Bounds in my father's --Shak.

Note: In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the
side which would be on the left of the bearer of the
shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder.

2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the
left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as,
sinister influences.

All the several ills that visit earth,
Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. --B.
Jonson.

3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity;
perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts. --Bacon.

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any
sinister or inferior arts. --South.

He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions
directed particularly toward himself. --Sir W.
Scott.

4. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger;
as, a sinister countenance.

{Bar sinister}. (Her.) See under {Bar}, n.

{Sinister aspect} (Astrol.), 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.

{Sinister base}, {Sinister chief}. See under {Escutcheon}.

As Cristiani meets President Bush on Friday, many question whether his faction of the Republican Nationalist Alliance is dominant and whether he can control reputedly sinister elements of the party.
Later, there was sinister mention of a bridge from which suicides throw themselves, an effective and time-honoured method of doing yourself in which is also popular in London, Bristol, and Paris.
In one case, he attempted to disrupt the work of a U.S. diplomat by sending him concocted threatening letters in the name of a sinister national liberation movement.
Across the floor weird constructs like 'deconstruction' gaze at sinister compounds like 'post-modernism.'
Around them, Vladimir's mother, father and maid weave a sinister intrigue worthy of Len Deighton in Ipcress File form. Vladimir's diseased and decadent intelligence is met by Nelly's cool hysteria and the extraordinary venom of his Mother.
The resultant calf's "sinister birth" left it unqualified for prizes at the county fair, the justice wrote.
Any attempt to remove religion from schools in Utah is largely in response to religious intolerance by a majority and not some sinister plot by a minority.
There is an a cappella double chorus (Gounod adored Palestrina); elsewhere the smooth surface is ruffled by chromatic flurries, and there are hints (quite sinister in this context) of the whole-tone scale.
Mr Doug McAvoy, NUT general secretary, said the letter revealed a 'sinister government plot'.
Take one Bavarian castle and people it with a mad scientist, a smooth German baron, four silly English aristocrats and a sinister Chief of Police, and the show appears to run itself.
Among these reforms are a 50% cut in the 63,000-man armed forces and replacement of some sinister police agencies by a new force under civilian control.
In part, this reflected nothing more sinister than a bit of profit-taking.
Instead, much of his role as holder of the Treasury purse-strings has been taken over by something with the appropriately sinister name of EDX, the new cabinet committee established to consider the competing departmental claims.
Unfortunately, the statement includes a remark which appears most sinister in its implications. Sir Robin claims that 'the victims (the civil servants) are often middle-ranking officials who could not have expected to be thrust into the limelight'.
He's right: Coverage was much more timely, but predictably the only Tibetan voices in Xinhua dispatches were those willing to denounce the "sinister aims" of the Dalai Lama's "clique."
The other was the sinister, looming bulk of the Gargano peninsula. You have to stop over: but where?
I found it to be sinister and terrible.
I think we're rock musicians borrowing from country." Like a certain famed British songwriting duo they admired, Cuddy and Keelor's styles are often a contrast between the sinister and the sweet.
"The use of the term slush fund doesn't imply anything sinister, like they (Thiokol officials) were putting it into their pockets," Mr. Levin said.
Peggy Kriha's Etain was properly ethereal, and there were effective contributions from Brian Nickel as Eochaidh, the tragic king, and Jamie Offenbach as Dalua, the sinister spirit who manipulates the drama.
But although Freud opposed religion as a sinister force that must be defeated - Lawton characterises Freud as a 'master blasphemer' in this sense - the threat of conflict always lurks.
As for the other performers, Donal Donnelly in the part of Dr. Watson has the unenviable task of trying to be both the lovable bumbler and the sinister murderer.
The market is concerned "sinister things" might happen, said Jim Walker, managing director of Winfull Laing & Cruickshank Securities Ltd.
Indeed, this aura of verisimilitude eventually has you wondering if the book's sinister view of moviemaking might not really be true, a feeling of uncertainty which persists even after you turn the last page.
For "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," he used his son's toys _ bells, a xylophone and a shake toy to make a sinister sound for the show.
The whole crowd seethes around him, desperate to buy. Unfortunately for Keenan, he is being pursued by the sinister Hannibal Jackson who, suspecting trickery threatens blackmail - unless Keenan will agree to sell the animal.
It looked more like a Hollywood set than the remnants of one of the most sinister sites of the Cold War.
He also suggested he saw the sinister hand of Vice President George Bush behind the timing of the disclosures of sexual misbehavior by a fellow fundamentalist preacher, Jimmy Swaggart.
The skill is that purile jokes - 'I bought a de-caffeinated coffee table' - are easily swallowed in the incessant flow, and that there is a sinister undertow which keeps you hooked.
Even more sinister is the fact that it works. NEC, the electronics and communications corporation, claims it is the first company to think of applying virtual reality to skiing.

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