Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sinister

adj. 1 suggestive of evil; looking malignant or villainous. 2 wicked or criminal (a sinister motive). 3 of evil omen. 4 Heraldry of or on the left-hand side of a shield etc. (i.e. to the observer's right). 5 archaic left-hand. Derivatives sinisterly adv. sinisterness n. Etymology: ME f. OF sinistre or L sinister left SINISTRAL adj. & n. --adj. 1 left-handed. 2 of or on the left. 3 (of a flat-fish) with the left side uppermost. 4 (of a spiral shell) with whorls rising to the left and not (as usually) to the right. Derivatives sinistrality n. sinistrally adv.