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Word "SINISTER" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Synonyms:
black, dark
Examples:
the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Synonyms:
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening
Examples:
sinister storm clouds
a sinister smile

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
on or starting from the wearer's left
Examples:
bar sinister

Crossword Clues for SINISTER

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Clue Source Date
Sibling gets fashionable but menacing (8)
Left in for a member of the family to guard (8)
2012 horror film starring Ethan Hawke and Juliet Rylance Mirror Quiz 26 May 2025
Disquieting(8)
Malign, ominous The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 24 Apr 2025
Left base The Times Sunday Cryptic 20 Apr 2025
Upcoming endless drink is left (8)
Left at home to occupy a sibling
In heraldry, on or starting from the wearer's left (8)
Yeltsin is terrified about dark (8)
It's left to look malign (8)
Such as Emilia to 23 around home? Unlucky
Forbidding nun to be seen around home (8)
Forbidding being home when relative is coming round
The part of the charge threatening evil (8)
Senior nurse round at home - that's decidedly inauspicious (8)
Ominous The Sun Two Speed 22 Nov 2024
Nun holding in evil The Sun Two Speed 22 Nov 2024
The nurse is round at home - that's ominous (8)
Tries out wickedness first: that's ominous (8)
Menacing relative going around N Ireland (8)
Menacing relative outside home The Times Quick Cryptic 30 Sep 2024
Disturbing letters from assassin is terrifying (8)
Evil relative surrounds home (8) Puzzler Cryptic 28 Jul 2024
Left unfinished, wine is returned The Times Sunday Cryptic 28 Jul 2024
For a member of the family hiding in, boding ill (8)
Evil ministers read last letter first, ignoring a thousand (8)
Inwardly, cousin is terribly wicked (8)
Evil-looking (8)
Insert is designed to be threatening (8)
___ Street, Compton Mackenzie novel (8)
Ominous for clergyman having hint of self-doubt for months
Latin word for "left-handed" that came to mean "evil," reflecting a historical bias against left-handers in some cultures
Evil nun bounds in
The-malignant-Left?-(8)
Assassin is terrific keeping shady (8)
Evil sibling swallowed 5-down (8)
Ominous Mirror Classic 05 May 2024
Of, on or towards the left-hand side in heraldry (8)
Left being unpleasant
Tries out wrongdoing first: that's inauspicious (8)
Tries out wrong-doing first
Malevolent sibling abducted Indian at one (8)
Threatening home, relative coming round (8)
Evil, ominous (8)
Threatening popular nun outside (8)
Evil nun boxed in (8)
Threatening nun with home invasion? (8)
Clergyman changes top - weird (8)
Relation going round home is threatening (8) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Nov 2023
Up to no good Newsday 22 Oct 2023
Forbidding nurse to bind hip The Times Cryptic 07 Jul 2023
Forbidding southern clergyman removing cap Irish Times Crosaire 21 Apr 2023
Ominous USA Today 17 Dec 2022
Spooky home secured by relative The Times Cryptic 10 Nov 2022
Of ill omen The Telegraph Quick 10 Sep 2022
Left relative drinking wine unconfined The Telegraph Toughie 13 May 2022
Threatening nun outside home The Times Cryptic 02 Feb 2022
… leading politician switching motorway to south — very worrying
... leading politician switching motorway to south — very worrying The Guardian Cryptic 02 Dec 2021
Ominous USA Today 28 Nov 2021
Suggestive of evil The Times Concise 23 Sep 2021
Shady relative keeping cool The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Aug 2021
Disturbing conundrum ultimately leaves cabinet chasing its tail
Evil looking hospital worker doing the rounds at home Irish Times Crosaire 13 Jul 2021
Ominous batting, caught by sibling
Ominous batting, caught by sibling
   Nun holding in evil
Menacing woman with habit seen outside home
Relative holding in evil The Sun Two Speed 14 Apr 2021
Ominous The Sun Two Speed 14 Apr 2021
Threatening relative outside home
Nun holding in evil The Sun Two Speed 14 Dec 2020
Sister in dress that's black Irish Times Crosaire 02 Nov 2020
Relative hiding in dark The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Nov 2020
Threatening sibling drinking at home
Nun holding in evil
Tries pants on wrong, looking ugly
Suggestive of evil The Times Concise 11 Mar 2020
Minarets in Islamabad rising around — leaning to the left
Evil one back, almost menacing
Part of Wisconsin is terribly menacing
Suggesting or threatening evil or danger Irish Times Simplex 26 Sep 2019
Evil Eugene Sheffer 16 Jul 2019
Baleful Newsday 15 Jun 2019
Shady stationer nursing bad back
Most Greek wine is revolting and evil
Malign, ominous Irish Times Simplex 17 May 2019
Disturbing someone in hospital, ringing in The Telegraph Cryptic 11 May 2019
Net is controlled, in the clutches of titled person – shady
Malign type on ward guarding pair of inmates
Malign ward supervisor entertaining at home
Sloth, for example, tries moving on the left side
Left bend?
Ominous, nun ringing home The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Sep 2018
Ominous, baleful Irish Times Simplex 12 Jul 2018
Wicked lapse is end, almost The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Jun 2018
Eerie, alarming Irish Times Simplex 07 Jun 2018
Forbidding nun to keep fashionable The Telegraph Cryptic 31 May 2018
Word from the Latin for ''left'' Newsday 05 May 2018
. Expelled nun from home is dark
Ulster hugged by sibling on the left The Telegraph Toughie 11 Jan 2018
Left relative keeping home The Guardian Quiptic 08 Jan 2018
Endless wine is knocked back, boding no good
Left relative keeping home
Menacing coming from the left The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Dec 2017
Nun's kept in the dark?
Left with the threat of evil
Menacing senior nurse holding hip?
Ominous Wall Street Journal 03 Oct 2017
Left base
Malign relative around at home
Threatening, as most of wine is rejected The Telegraph Cryptic 31 May 2017
Scary relative touring Northern Ireland
Evil, evil, evil rites The Telegraph Toughie 01 Mar 2017
Ominous The Telegraph Quick 25 Feb 2017
Ominous Universal 09 Oct 2016
Darkly evil Premier Sunday 25 Sep 2016
Serving up endless wine is ominous
Ominous sign's last one received by nun
Threatening society with tipping-off one of those in The Cabinet Irish Times Crosaire 19 Jul 2016
Left home to be nursed by sibling The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jul 2016
Ominous
Left its reins flapping The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Jul 2015
Left at home in the care of nurse
Forbidding nun tours Ulster
Threatening? That's not right
Evil chief scientist beheads priest
Ominous, nun going round home
Evil
Evil crime I back no end
Evil in punching nun
Menacing
Villainous
Villainous
The Fall "Bend ___"
Menacing
Like Snidely Whiplash
Threatening
On the left side, in Latin
Bad
*Ominous
Menacing
Disquieting
Up to no good
Disquieting
Menacing
Ominous
Menacing
Ominous
Dark
Ominous
Up to no good
Base
Ominous
Foreboding
Evil
Presaging trouble
Mackenzie's "___ Street"
Left
Malefic; baleful
Evil
Up to no good
Vincent Price's screen personality.
Left.
Underhand.
On the left side.
Portentous.
Corruptive.
A bar of undistinction.
Evil.
Ominous.
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