sinister
sinister
englanti
pahaenteinen
jolla on pahat aikeet, paha-aikeinen
Synonyymisanakirja
sinister
huolestuttava, turmiollinen, pelottava, uhkaava, pahaenteinen, vasemmanpuolinen.
Rimmaavat sanat
sinister rimmaa näiden kanssa:
tonic water, copywriter, bitter, babysitter...
Katso kaikki
Englannin sanakirja
sinister (englanti > suomi)
pahaenteinen, uhkaava
paha
vasemmanpuolinen
sinister englanniksi
inauspicious Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in w:bar sinister|bar sinister).
Ben Jonson
- All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
(quote-book)
evil Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
sinister influences
the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
Of the left side.
Shakespeare
- Here on his sinister cheek.
- My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.
1911, (w), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
puhekieltä On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
puhekieltä wrong Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
Francis Bacon
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
South
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
Sir Walter Scott
- He read in their looks (..) sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.
sinisterEnglish sinister
left
perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile
1st BC, Virgilius
- mores sinistri
- arboribus Notus sinister
puhekieltä auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)
- sinistra cornix, good omen
2nd century, Apuleius
- sinistro pede profectus, started with bad omen
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