Spoiled vs Sinister - What's the difference?
spoiled | sinister | Related terms |
(spoil)
Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
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
Spoiled is a related term of sinister.
As adjectives the difference between spoiled and sinister
is that spoiled is of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible while sinister is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ).As a verb spoiled
is (spoil).spoiled
English
Alternative forms
* spoiltVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Much more common in US than "(spoilt)". * About as common as "spoilt" in UK.Anagrams
* * * * *sinister
English
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.
