sinister

Adjective
  1. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (synset 300195958)
    "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
    similar to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
    same as: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening
  2. Stemming from evil characteristics or forces;
    Wicked or dishonorable (synset 301135435)
    "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"
    similar to: evil - morally bad or wrong
    same as: black, dark
  3. On or starting from the wearer's left (synset 300747354)
    "bar sinister"
    referred to in: heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
    similar to: sinistral - of or on the left

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