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SINISTER

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sinister adjectiv

1. sinistru, funest, de rău augur.

2. (despre aspectul unui om) îngrijorător, bolnăvicios; cu mină proastă.

3. (despre intenţie) rău, ticălos, criminal, dăunător.

4. (herald.) care se află în partea dreaptă a blazonului (din punctul de vedere al privitorului).

5. aşezat, situat pe partea stângă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I could not restrain my eye from resting for an instant on a red spot upon it; but it was not so red as I turned, when I met that sinister expression in his face.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Dark enough and sinister enough.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could see nothing sinister about him.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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