sinister / ˈsɪn ə stər /

💦中学词汇邪恶的阴险狰狞阴险的

sinister 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
  2. bad, evil, base, or wicked; fell: his sinister purposes.
  3. unfortunate; disastrous; unfavorable: a sinister accident.
  4. of or on the left side; left.
  5. Heraldry. noting the side of an escutcheon or achievement of arms that is to the left of the bearer.

sinister 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

nasty, menacing

更多sinister例句

  1. We’ve seen the pandemic, the campaign and now, as you and I speak in the aftermath of the election, we’ve seen very clearly how the sinister role of propaganda has affected our national discourse.
  2. The game’s biggest draw was a storyline which unfolded over multiple play sessions, with diseases mutating and cities falling into chaos as a sinister conspiracy spread its tendrils across the world.
  3. Some characters buy the gadgets out of simple curiosity or a desire for companionship, while others use the technology for more sinister ends.
  4. Then, when the host plant flowers, so does the dodder, setting the stage for the sinister cycle to begin again.
  5. There are plenty of reasons why duopolies exist, and they’re not necessarily all sinister.
  6. Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations.
  7. “i wanted to talk to him about sinister and jobs,” wrote Pascal.
  8. The Kremlin likes to portray these as sinister Western conspiracies.
  9. A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.
  10. As sinister and well-resourced as it is, it may be the weakest link in the chain.
  11. Nevertheless, this world of mankind to-day seems to me to be a very sinister and dreadful world.
  12. These are obtained easily, whence follow the sinister reports that they give your Majesty, to the harm of the public welfare.
  13. A chill, sinister feeling crept over me, but I kept my gaze fixed steadily in the same direction.
  14. Then he turned suddenly, and Harris saw that his face had turned most oddly and disagreeably sinister.
  15. The countenances round him turned sinister, but not idly, negatively sinister: they grew dark with purpose.