Adjective

(er)

Strained; drawn close; tight.

strict embrace

strict ligature

Tense; not relaxed.

strict fiber

Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.

to keep strict watch

to pay strict attention

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

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very strict in observing the Sabbath

Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.

to understand words in a strict sense

(botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

Severe in discipline.

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.

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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.