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What is the adjective for sinisterly?

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sinister
  1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
  2. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
  3. 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.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Just one look at that sinister and evil man made me wonder why I had even bothered to come to Canterbury.”
      “Then one morning came the sinister news of the assassination of Calmette, which threw the whole of Paris into a state of disquietude and apprehension.”
      “A bendlet sinister extends from the top left to the bottom right of the shield.”
sinisterwise
  1. (heraldry, archaic) sinister; on the left-hand side from the wearer's viewpoint.
sinistroposterior
  1. (anatomy) sinister and posterior
sinistroventral
  1. (anatomy) sinister and ventral
sinistre
  1. Obsolete form of sinister.
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