Sinister vs Squalid - What's the difference?

Sinister is a related term of squalid.

As adjectives the difference between sinister and squalid

is that sinister is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ) while squalid is extremely dirty and unpleasant.

As a noun squalid is

(zoology) any member of the squalidae.

sinister

English

Alternative forms

* sinistre (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).

* Ben Jonson

All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.

*'>citation

Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.

sinister influences

the sinister atmosphere of the crypt

Of the left side.

* Shakespeare

Here on his sinister cheek.

* Shakespeare

My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.

* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :

Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’

(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

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.

* South

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.

* Sir Walter Scott

He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.

Antonyms

* (of the right side): dexter * (heraldry): dexter

Derived terms

* bar sinister * baton sinister * bend sinister * sinister aspect * sinister base * sinister chief * sinistral

Anagrams

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squalid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.

A squalid attempt to buy votes.

Noun

(en noun)

(zoology) Any member of the Squalidae.

* 2008 , David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates (page 126)

Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods