sinister
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- Proto-Indo-European *senh₂-is-? Proto-Italic *senisteros Latin sinister Late Latin sinextrum Old French senestrebor. Middle English sinistre English sinister From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”).
- derived from senestre
Definitions
Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate.
- bar sinister
- All the several ills that visit earth / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
Evil or seemingly evil
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
- sinister influences
- the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
Of the left side.
- my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:
- His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
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Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
- He read in their looks […] sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sinister. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sinister. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at sinister
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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