Crossword-Solution: SINISTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sinister | a. | On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. |
| Sinister | a. | Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences. |
| Sinister | a. | Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims. |
| Sinister | a. | Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SINISTER | anagram | INSISTER, SISTERIN |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with SINISTER (5)
The contrast of this revelation with her anticipations of some sinister figure in sombre garb was so great that it had upon her the effect of a fairy transformation.
The motivation for this is not always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance programmers.
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east, the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point, a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.
Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.
All about us in the garden lay their sinister craft, which the therns for some reason, then unaccountable to me, made no effort to injure.
Quotes with SINISTER (3)
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.
Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? Summer was past and day was past. Somber clouds in the west were massed. Out in the porch's sagging floor, leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed. Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten ab…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1949–2023).