seeming evil or dangerous; making you think sth bad will happen:
There was something cold and sinister about him. * There is another, more sinister, possibility. * We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sinister is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sinister a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sinister is tagged as adjective.
Does sinister appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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