Definitions for sinister

sinister sin·is·ter

Spelling: [sin-uh-ster]
IPA: /ˈsɪn ə stər/

Sinister is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in sinister (eiinrsst).

Definitions for sinister

adjective

  1. threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous:
  2. bad, evil, base, or wicked; fell:
  3. unfortunate; disastrous; unfavorable:
  4. of or on the left side; left.
  5. Heraldry. noting the side of an escutcheon or achievement of arms that is to the left of the bearer (opposed to dexter).

Origin of sinister

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin: on the left hand or side, hence unfavorable, injurious

Examples for sinister

As sinister and well-resourced as it is, it may be the weakest link in the chain.

There was a sinister thread in that flowing note, and suddenly Dick remembered.

Dick, too, winced under the pain of this meeting with his father in a situation so sinister.

The sinister association of ideas made Mary shudder, but she said no more.

Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations.

The Kremlin likes to portray these as sinister Western conspiracies.

“i wanted to talk to him about sinister and jobs,” wrote Pascal.

We do it in a sinister sense more often than by way of helpfulness.

A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.

The voice of the older man came with a sinister force and saturnine.

Word Value for sinister
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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