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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • ÄäntäminenAU
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈsɪnɪstə/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈsɪnɪstɚ/
  • Indic:
    • IPA: /sɪˈnɪsʈə(ɾ)/
KieliKäännökset
espanjasiniestro, izquierdo
hollantisinister
italiasinistro, sinistra, bieco, patibolare
latinalūgubris
portugalisinistro, aziago, lúgubre, atro
ranskasinistre, sénestre, senestre, patibulaire, torve, glauque
ruotsiolycksbådande, lömsk, grym
saksaböse, links, sinister, linksseitig, linker
suomipahaenteinen, uhkaava, paha, vasemmanpuolinen
tšekkivlevo
venäjäзловещий (zloveštši), злополучный (zlopolutšnyi), злой (zloi), находящийся слева (nahodjaštšijsja sleva), лихой (lihoi), жуткий (žutki)
virokuri

Määritelmät

Adjektiivi

  1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
  2. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
  3. (archaic) Of the left side.
  4. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
  5. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

Esimerkit

  • 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
  • Here on his sinister cheek.
  • My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.
  • Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
  • Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
  • He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
  • He read in their looks [...] sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.

Taivutusmuodot

Komparatiivimore sinister
Superlatiivimost sinister

(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.

Division of the heraldic escutcheon: dexter to the bearer's right (viewer's left), the position of honour; sinister to the bearer's left (viewer's right).

(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.

The different view points of knight and viewer; the heraldic view is that of the knight. Charges on the shield, like this lion rampant, look to the dexter side unless otherwise stated in the blazon - unless reversed for heraldic courtesy, a practice more common in Continental Europe than in Britain

(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.

Argent a bend sinister gules. The bend sinister extends upward to the sinister corner, while the bend (i.e. bend dexter) extends upward to the dexter corner of a shield.