Sinister vs Ominously - What's the difference?
sinister | ominously |
Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).
* Ben Jonson
*'>citation
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Of the left side.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
* Francis Bacon
* South
* Sir Walter Scott
in an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding
* 1868 , Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone?
* 1983 , Patricia Hagan, Golden Roses
As an adjective sinister
is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ).As an adverb ominously is
in an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding.sinister
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Alternative forms
* sinistre (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
- sinister influences
- the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
- Here on his sinister cheek.
- My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
- He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.
Antonyms
* (of the right side): dexter * (heraldry): dexterDerived terms
* bar sinister * baton sinister * bend sinister * sinister aspect * sinister base * sinister chief * sinistralAnagrams
* ----ominously
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Adverb
(en adverb)- From first to last he was ominously' polite, and ' ominously silent.
- His nostrils flared ominously and his fists opened and closed at his sides.