sinistrouslyadv.

1460 in P. E. Jones Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1961) VI. 11 (MED) Henry Waver..full lamentably shewing..þat where as he nowe late by diverse persones..entending overgretely to charge þe said Henry full sinistrousely ageyns all trouth and conscience..hath he defamed..þat he contrary to þe kinges moste dredefull comaundement..shuld have sold..diverse harneys and armure.

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 146 Thais that went to Swadin behavit thayme selfis sinistrouslie.

1696 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 89 [They] have sinistrusly and unbeknowin to him putt money in his poceat of a design to make him shouldier.

1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 209 The promiscuous multitude being by intellectual weakness prepared for the reception of mental poison—the select few, by sinistrously derived strength, for the injecting of it—observe [etc.].

1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre vi. f. xc^v If the Capitaine..in lightynge of his horse fell, it was of y^e souldiours interpreted sinisterously.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 174 Evil-affected and malicious Spirits..may sinistrously interpret and calumniate the Resolution.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 129 He had his Jury to deal with, and, if he did not tread upon Eggs, they would conclude sinistrously, and be apt to find against his Opinion.

1832 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 12 July A plea to compare, sinistrously, the example of their pastor for six days, with his precepts on the seventh?

1581 Admon. to Antichristian Ministers sig. B Scripture perqueir he hes sinistrouslie.

a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 354 Some of them stake Scripture to prove it, but most untowardly;..yet more sinistrously from those words, If I be lifted up.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 307 Digestive and abstersive remedies, applied sinistrously and amiss.

1880 S. Cox Comm. Job 416 The Critics misconceive Elihu as completely and sinistrously as Job was by his friends.

1607 W. Alexander Julius Cæsar iii. ii, in Monarchicke Trag. (rev. ed.) sig. Y Striue to pacifie thy brest, Lest sorrowes but sinistrously presage, That which thou would not wish.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sinistrement, sinisterously, vnluckily.

1851 Caledonian Mercury 16 Jan. A place sinistrously named ‘Murderer's Bar’.

1969 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 19 July 4/6 ‘The price war’, he announced sinistrously, ‘has just begun. I, for one, do not intend to move over.’

2018 @eztempo 25 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sinistrously threatening coming from a president.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 190 Many in their infancy are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life..left handed. View more context for this quotation

1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 888 We often stand shut up in that sentry-looking canvass box, dexterously, and sinistrously fingering the string.

1998 Lefties are not Special—around Here! in alt.lefthanders (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Nov. In my engineering classes, easily half of the students were left handed and, in some of them, the ratio was as high as 100%!!!..Sinistrously yours, Cherie.