sinister
adjective
threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous.
sinisterly
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a word derived from
sinister.
Example Sentences
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The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
When the bird appeared, Mr. Kaestner had no doubt about what it was: an orange-tufted spiderhunter, a banana-loving songbird with a sinisterly down-curved bill.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
The show unfurled with a model emerging from the shadows in a sinisterly twisted black laminated dress that seemed to swallow her hands whole — a striking image of constriction reappeared throughout the collection.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
The sinisterly handsome major- general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and commander of its Quds Force, is responsible for covert operations abroad.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2019
I had begun to believe that the Mediterranean Diet that kept my grandmother alive against her will was also sinisterly retarding my maturity.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
