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EVIL |
Sinister |
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OMINOUS |
Sinister |
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CACKLE |
Sinister laugh |
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OMENS |
Sinister signs |
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EVILTWIN |
Sinister sibling |
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SINISTERLY |
In a sinister manner. |
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INFAUST |
Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister. |
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PRIMEMINISTER |
New start for crime. Sinister leader |
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PURITY |
Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. |
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SHADOWY |
Put ad in show - why? It’s dark and sinister |
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OBLIQUE |
Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence,
disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. |
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DECRESCENT |
A crescent with the horns directed towards the
sinister. |
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LEFT-HANDED |
Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister;
malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. |
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SINISTER |
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity;
perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims. |
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DEXTER |
Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as
opposed to sinister, or left. |
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AWK |
Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end
of a rod (the but end). |
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SCARP |
A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only
half as broad as the latter. |
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LEER |
A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of
the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. |
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CHIEF |
The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be
composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. |
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LOZENGY |
Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or
a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister. |
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PURPURE |
Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines
declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or
from sinister chief to dexter base). |
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BEND |
One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a
fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the
dexter chief to the sinister base. |
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TENNE |
A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an
orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from
sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines. |
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CONTOURNE' |
Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; --
said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the
dexter, or the like. |
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BATON |
An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark
of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister;
-- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |