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Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.

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 Meanings and Examples of SINISTER
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sinister
 a.  suggesting or threatening evil; accompanied by or leading to disaster
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  He actually saw that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3  That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
4  The moon was sinister over this plain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
5  The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  This penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
7  This light formed a sort of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD...
8  Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
9  One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round its neck.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
10  The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
11  All this would have caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
12  The march of the damned to their tortures, performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet cart.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
13  That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT
14  In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on they are sinister.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
15  The difference between these two redoubts was the difference between the formidable and the sinister.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Example Sentence:
1  We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
2  There was something sinister about Mr Scott's death.
3  In sudden panic, she's convinced someone sinister is trying to push her from the train.