1. A reference to something which threatens or suggests malevolence, menace, evil, or harm: The president of Steve's company discovered a sinister plot by a competing business to cause his corporation to go bankrupt.

In the movie, the man had a sinister smile on his face just before he started to break through the door of the house when the people who lived there were away.
3. Descriptive of the prediction of trouble or some ominous happening: The sinister storm clouds suggested that heavy rains would be occurring soon.
4. Etymology: from Latin sinister, "left, on the left side" which was considered "unlucky or unfortunate".

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