Examples of sinister

• One could luxuriate for long hours in similar acousmatic conceits and their morbid implications, all those sinister telephone voices.

• Her despair tilted over into a more sinister rhetoric.

• In either case, professionalism suggests sinister abstractness - morbidly in the former, ridiculously in the latter.

• He insisted that valuing houses separately from land was impractical and a sinister scheme to favor urban elites.

• And the old streets, while no longer smelly or sinister, are so clogged with vehicles that the pedestrian once again runs an obstacle course.

• At any time in history acronyms can hide more sinister realities condensed in them.

• Domestically too, those who worked to reduce the birth-rate had a sinister motive - to restrain the growth of particular social groups and particular races.

• Of course, it would not be realistic to expect an effective transnational anti-corruption campaign to target any and every 'sinister practice'.