(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(2) He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history.
(3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(4) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(5) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(6) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
(7) The results showed a very good distribution of 100% or 90% in the bronchi principals dexter and sinister.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
(10) Sinister individuals in lab coats "advising" from behind the scenes?
(11) "But this can be taken out of my hands in a number of sinister ways."
(12) The police had handed control of the investigation to Paul Britton, a grandstanding and, in my view, faintly sinister, psychologist.
(13) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(14) Other more sinister forces have tried to tap into the widespread hostility towards the banking system.
(15) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
(16) This is especially so where its occasional presentation as polypoid lesions of the lower respiratory tract may mimic other more sinister lesions and lead to unwarranted invasive procedures by the unsuspecting clinician.
(17) It would be possible to write off the Swartz prosecution (as some have done) as the action of a politically ambitious attorney general, but actually it fits a much more sinister pattern.
(18) In retrospect, the movement was not just horrific but often ludicrous in its paranoia: the most "sinister" aspect of one supposed conspiracy, notes the book Mao's Last Revolution , was that even some of its core members appeared unaware of its existence.
(19) I don’t know how well thought-through they have been with it.” “You have a medical issue at your home, you call police, you don’t expect it to to be recorded on video forever, and for somebody to come and request [it] and be used against you in some sinister way,” said Gibbons, about the recordings potentially being public record.
(20) EL: The first psychiatrist I saw subscribed very much to the same view as my friend and the GP – that my voice (and bear in mind, it's still only a single voice at this time) was a sinister harbinger of something much more serious.
Sinistral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
(a.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simple genetic factors do not appear to be responsible for these sinistral tendencies.
(2) Sixty right-handed subjects, divided into four groups of 15 according to sex and familial sinistrality (FS), performed a test of language lateralization.
(3) When immediate relatives of the original subject pool were tested on hypnotic susceptibility level, sinistral relatives scored lower in susceptibility than dextral relatives.
(4) The relations of hand performance to the degree of left-hand preference, and left- minus right-hand performance were studied in left-handed male and female subjects considering familial sinistrality and writing hand.
(5) Controlling for age and family size, a significant effect for degree of familial sinistrality was found in the girls but not in the boys.
(6) Self-reported parental sinistrality was more common in respondents with a consistent left hand preference.
(7) All dextrals and those sinistral subjects who used the right hand in acquisition showed superior transfer to the identical maze.
(8) It is argued that the right hemisphere is more specifically organised in strong sinistrals than the general model would predict.
(9) In contrast, the P1 and P2 asymmetries were uninfluenced by lexical class or familial sinistrality.
(10) Support for this theory was obtained by comparing the use of autoerotic fantasy and imagery in another group distinguished by their degree of cerebral lateralization: dextral vs. sinistral males.
(11) Familial sinistrality and hand posture, on the whole, did not influence tapping performances.
(12) Thirty-one children with right (n = 18) and left (n = 13) congenital hemiplegia were compared for incidence of hand- and foot-preference, eye-dominance, and familial sinistrality.
(13) We now report a study using subjects selected according to criteria similar to those of Tankle and Heilman, and find under these conditions that sinistrals are indeed significantly inferior to dextrals.
(14) Females and dextrals made more correct responses than males or sinistrals.
(15) Both dextrals and sinistrals showed the same overall pattern deviation: in the tactile scanning task, both right and left hands deviated to the left of the midpoint and in the kinesthetic scanning tasks, the right hand deviated to the left and the left hand to the right of the midpoint.
(16) A comparison of the incidence of FS in mentally retarded and nonretarded samples indicated that a positive history of familial sinistrality (FS+) was significantly more likely to occur in mildly retarded individuals.
(17) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
(18) Sinistral portal hypertension is a clinical syndrome of splenic vein thrombosis caused by pancreatic pathology and manifests as bleeding gastric varices in patients with a patent portal vein and normal hepatic function.
(19) Guidelines for management of pancreatic trauma are (1) resection of sinistral gland for perforating injuries of the body or tail; (2) drainage of perforations of the pancreatic head when the major duct is intact; (3) resection of duodenum and pancreatic head for devitalizing injury of both structures.
(20) Such a "gastrosplenic artery" leaves the main trunk of the splenic artery in its middle segment in cranio--sinistral direction and falls apart into a posterior gastric and a superior splenic branch both with various differences in caliber.