| 单词 | sinister |
| 释义 | sin·is·ter I. 1. archaic 2. obsolete < the sinister application of the malicious, ignorant, and base interpreter — Ben Jonson > 3. archaic < nimble and sinister tricks and shifts — Francis Bacon > 4. < the sinister character of the early factory system — Walter Lippmann > < emotions long repressed sometimes find sinister outlets — V.L.Parrington > < the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him — Thomas Hardy > < critics who … exaggerate the sinister influence of a kind of underworld of economic werewolves — F.L.Mott > < denouncing the sinister aims and wicked conduct of those in high places — C.L.Becker > 5. a. < was placed on … the sinister side of the church — J.A.Davison > < on a helmet, a wreath with the crest, a dexter and a sinister hand proper, grasping a two-handed sword argent — F.W.Steer > specifically < a theory that the bearings of a person who fled … could be assumed and borne in a sinister quarter — F.P.Barnard > b. < the victor eagle, whose sinister flight retards our host — Alexander Pope > 6. < everything in the room had a new significance, a sinister meaning — G.D.Brown > < something devilish and sinister about the whole business — Lewis Mumford > < or, more sinister still, the black fog full of birds — Listener > < a sinister brightness — a poisonous, threatening flash of pigment, set off by the blackness of the shadows — William Beebe > < with a somewhat sinister haircut, a unique black beard that would mark him as a dangerous man — Harrison Smith > 7. < expressed their alarm over the sinister results that had followed — W.H.Lawrence > < was a sinister idea from the beginning, a surefire recipe for civil war — Edmond Taylor > II. < the flag was criticized because the eagle faced sinister, that is, to its own left — Elizabeth W. King > |
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