sinister
adjective/ˈsɪnɪstə(r)/
/ˈsɪnɪstər/
- seeming evil or dangerous; making you think something 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.
Extra Examples- I found his silence rather sinister.
- There was a sinister undertone in his words.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
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- extremely
- fairly
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘malicious, underhand’): from Old French sinistre or Latin sinister ‘left’.Definitions on the go
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