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 tornado hits Kansas, this ensemble starts spinning around sinisterly in funereal disco costumes that might have been a hit on the long-forgotten variety television program “Dance Fever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The ability to search clips by sound made TikTok perhaps the most sinisterly effective music distribution tool since terrestrial radio.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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
It was a mass of vines and blooms that twisted sinisterly in the flame but sat, docile and domestic, in the moonlight.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
