Sinister

bar sinister

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

And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.

sinister influences

the sinister atmosphere of the crypt

my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:

His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;

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