Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Sinister; inauspicious.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sinistral, 1, or sinister, 1.
  • Ill-omened; inauspicious; unlucky.
  • Malicious; malignant; evil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
  • adjective Wrong; absurd; perverse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic On the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
  • adjective archaic wrong; absurd; perverse

Etymologies

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See sinister.

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Examples

  • Reeve Gootch was right and Reeve Drughad was sinistrous!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • We had, in our passage to Mull, the company of a woman and her child, who had exhausted the charity of Col. The arrival of a beggar on an Island is accounted a sinistrous event.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • At last he got quite dexterous -- and sinistrous, too, for that matter.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • Greenish eyes, it is asserted, have the same general meaning as gray eyes, with the addition of selfishness or a sinistrous disposition.

    The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

  • And concerning the small variations which they contain, we can fitly quote the words of a fine old English scholar, Bentley: "Even put them into the hands of a knave or a fool, and yet with the most sinistrous and absurd choice, he shall not extinguish the light of any one chapter, nor so disguise Christianity but that every feature of it will still be the same."

    The Books of the New Testament Leighton Pullan 1902

  • The foregoing remark so fitly tells us of our own participation in the same sinistrous line that we can not but borrow them to preface what follows.

    Tennessee 1896

  • The foregoing remark so fitly tells us of our own participation in the same sinistrous line that we can not but borrow them to preface what follows.

    The Woman's Era Vol. 2 No. 2 1895

  • The foregoing remark so fitly tells us of our own participation in the same sinistrous line that we can not but borrow them to preface what follows.

    The Woman's Era, Vol. 2 1895

  • And, therefore, so many, who are sinistrous unto good actions, are ambi-dexterous unto bad; and Vulcans in virtuous paths, Achilleses in vicious motions.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • He lived in obscurity, and only went out at night; he only communicated with his fellows with the most sinistrous precautions.

    History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

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