Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sinister manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sinister manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sinister manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As Red can't wait to torture a terrified Vanning, he sinisterly and bizarrely sings: "The tougher they are the more fun they are tra-la."
Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall Kim Morgan 2011
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As Red can't wait to torture a terrified Vanning, he sinisterly and bizarrely sings: "The tougher they are the more fun they are tra-la."
Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall Kim Morgan 2011
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Near the end of the atrocious Lifetime movie, Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the former Bolingbrook Sergeant Rob Lowe is sinisterly opening and closing his neighbor's garage door.
Chris Krapek: Drew Peterson: Untouchable Is a Repugnant TV Movie Chris Krapek 2012
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While Brown and Blair sometimes seemed to have aged years in the space of mere months, Cameron, somewhat sinisterly, seems to look more vibrant by the minute.
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Near the end of the atrocious Lifetime movie, Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the former Bolingbrook Sergeant Rob Lowe is sinisterly opening and closing his neighbor's garage door.
Chris Krapek: Drew Peterson: Untouchable Is a Repugnant TV Movie Chris Krapek 2012
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Near the end of the atrocious Lifetime movie, Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the former Bolingbrook Sergeant Rob Lowe is sinisterly opening and closing his neighbor's garage door.
Chris Krapek: Drew Peterson: Untouchable Is a Repugnant TV Movie Chris Krapek 2012
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Lights high on utility poles lit the interior, and the old buildings shone sinisterly in the amber glow.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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This conflation of the puerile and sinisterly sublime is not something that we see too often -- if ever -- in mainstream media, but it was also something I appreciated and sought out when I was young and always found deeply fulfilling.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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This conflation of the puerile and sinisterly sublime is not something that we see too often -- if ever -- in mainstream media, but it was also something I appreciated and sought out when I was young and always found deeply fulfilling.
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Camel trekking is an activity that matches man with a foul-tempered, humpbacked beast that sinisterly hisses and cavalierly drops to its haunches when it no longer feels compelled to carry you.
Dunes Struck 2011
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