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
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
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 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
“But we don’t know what the thing was,” said Harry, looking at the sinisterly smooth water.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
