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He gave me a sinister look.
Tom gave Mary a sinister look.
That sounds sinister.
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This unholy creature liveth in sinister caves, tombes and coffins, which are filled with cursed dirt from the fields of The Black Death.
Allan Gray felt a sinister force descend upon him.
Do you think that I'd put your sly and sinister brain into the body of a giant?
Sinister character!
Must this sinister rogue cross our path?
I tried not to show it, but I was quite hysterical inside. as though the whole thing were my fault - a sort of punishment, an awful, sinister warning.
If I seem a bit sinister as a parent, Mr. Marlowe it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy.
We feel that the thing that's upsetting you. is more sinister than howling dogs.
So attractively sinister!
I will not let you in a sinister place.
Why, for all you know, there's probably something a lot more sinister going on behind those windows.
There can only be a suicide crew left on board this monster lying here before us in the harbour, this sinister powerful menacing monster.
A sinister place in Greenwich Village. Come on, girls.
That's sinister enough.
I'll outlive all of you, you sinister buzzards. All of you!
It suggests that Metford's trip to an out-of-the way place like Sunset View.. Was a singularly sinister and most uncommon expedition.
This act was becoming more sinister.
I had sent to Gavin to get certain information that he must have found there in the dark and sinister alleys of Limehouse.
Holmes, that sinister-looking fellow, what's his name, Meade, if only he hadn't got away.
It's like a precocity of this sinister creature I should feel that my own career had reached its summit.
I won't be able to close my eyes in this sinister house.
The stain on my handkerchief suggest a certain sinister possibility.
Cause of the sinister legend of the place, hey?
I must confess if you wouldn't have over embellished into the business of the orange pips this sinister significance of the happenings of Driercliff House might have escaped my attention all together.
Sinister looking place.
Well, at least it's mysterious and attractive, not all dirty and sinister like a London fog.
As I was saying, Holmes and I crept down the alley between the sinister looking warehouses.
It's something infinitely more sinister.
Anything that any normal person might have done. will have a sinister meaning if I did it.
It's a mystery, a sinister one, believe me.
On the sinister side.
I prefer the left, the sinister side.
Something that emerges and looks at me with sinister eyes.
You give that simple word a wealth of sinister meaning. that almost brings the Victorian era back into existence.
For all you know, there's something sinister going on there.
She had yet to find out what sinister fame he rendered her, this very Parisian doctor, by killing himself in the middle of the city.
This comedy was getting sinister.
And the sinister way they use it.
By the way, who was this sinister type who was with you the other day?
News and current affairs
Maternal mortality is a sinister consequence of this complex situation.
He denounced Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a mere puppet of the sinister governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld.
Huntington sees something sinister at work within Islam - that Islam's social outcomes reflect, not its level of modernity, but the tenets of its faith.
Kim Jong Il's actions also projected a new image of himself as a serious and reasonable leader, not the sinister recluse frequently depicted in newspapers.
The real criminals, the officers of the companies - Nortel, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems - that built this sinister system of mind control, will never get closer to a prison than China's five-star hotels.
China's adventurism and its blithe assumption that it can deal with any international dictator it wishes and disturb the delicate military balance in outer space is emblematic of something sinister and dangerous.
But the Cameron government's approach is more sinister than the old right-wing tactic of taking aim at disciplines that can be derided as effete.
I do not attribute any malign or sinister purposes to the OSCE presence in Albania, unless one considers inertia malign.
The most sinister form of anti-Zionism is to be found among leftists who see Israel and the US as the planet's twin evils.
The truth is that the BDS movement is nothing more than a sinister caricature of the anti-totalitarian and anti-apartheid struggles.
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was one example; so, in a much more sinister way, was the fascist state.
Another, more sinister possibility is deliberate abuse of these powers to get rid of citizens whose presence in the country is merely inconvenient.
Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag's sinister atmosphere.
When people nowadays speak of nationalism, sinister images from another era come to mind.
Then it became clear that the rest of the world was badly affected by the fallout from the financial crisis, and a more sinister interpretation became popular.
Defenders of these ill-fated cross-border takeovers worry that a sinister whiff of the twentieth century's worst moments is in the air.
If their choices can be directed, is this not paternalism plain and simple, rendered more sinister because individuals are unaware that they are being nudged, and cannot raise their guard?
A decade ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes.
The Kremlin has probably lost its chance to remove Saakashvili by overt force, although sinister, more stealthy means cannot be ruled out.
The Bundesbank did not fall victim to a sinister southern European conspiracy; rather, it rendered itself irrelevant.
At a Jerusalem Day rally at Tehran University in December 2001, he uttered one of the regime's most sinister threats.
In the Middle East, for example, identity politics is manifesting itself in its most sinister form: a chaotic and violent clash between Sunni and Shia Muslims, exemplified by the rise of the Islamic State.
Although the direct threat of invasion and occupation has diminished, sinister forces still loom and must be confronted.