sinister meaning
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsinisterandmeaning
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sinister
adjective
uk/ˈsɪn.ɪ.stər/us/ˈsɪn.ə.stɚ/
making you feel that something bad or evil ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofsinisterandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tilted slightly to the right, it acquiredsinistermeaningon the world scene.
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Unfortunately, it has come to have a rathersinistermeaning, but we must reveal the truth, and intelligently put before all peoples what we think.
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We have always pressed for the introduction of efficiency but that word "rationalisation" has asinistermeaningto the worker in this country.
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The secondsinistermeaningwas that our procedural law favoured the rich.
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That nomenclature has taken on a rather moresinistermeaningnow.
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That is a word which carries to the minds of many people a somewhatsinistermeaning.
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I should like to assure him that there is nosinistermeaningin it.
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I do not know that "secure" has asinistermeaning.
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That is a phrase which has an entirely different, and in air transport, a much moresinistermeaning, to the non-bureaucratic mind.
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That discussion revolved around two questions — did the clause as it stood mean anything, and, if so, did it have asinistermeaning?
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But it has a verysinistermeaning.
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It has nosinistermeaningnor effect.
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This everyday phrase takes on a new, moresinistermeaningin context.
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Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in thesinistermeaningof the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables.
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The hospital world as a whole has read some rather sinister meanings, particularly into the words "monitoring and control".
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Then it had two sinister meanings.
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