1 evil, or suggesting that something evil is going to happen:
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'.
