Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sinistrous manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
- adverb With a tendency to use the left hand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sinistrous manner;perversely ;wrongly ;unluckily . - adverb With a tendency to use the
left hand .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest; that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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If some heretical persons and schismatical sectaries have at any time formerly been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude), I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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(which many anxious men have sinistrously sought, and required) is only to be found with
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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