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Definition of Sinisterness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinisterness
Literary usage of Sinisterness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dancing and Dancers of Today: The Modern Revival of Dancing As an Art by Caroline Caffin (1912)
"This part in the ballet is danced by the same dancer who appears as the ill-fated
swan-maiden and a subtle sinisterness in every motion and expression'is ..."
2. The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence (1858)
"... confusion, and the narrowness and sinisterness of secresy. The Attorney-General
has installed himself the arbiter of this work. ..."
3. Revolutionary Essays in Socialist Faith and Fancy by Peter Edward Burrowes (1903)
"... though not conscious sinisterness of purpose in the school curriculum and the
daily time wasters of the press, to place such things ever before us; ..."
4. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"I think I remember being impressed with the sinisterness of little hills like
Notre Dame de Lorette on the Flanders front: but then came the Carso, ..."
5. Revolutionary Essays in Socialist Faith and Fancy by Peter Edward Burrowes (1903)
"... though not conscious sinisterness of purpose in the school curriculum and the
daily time wasters of the press, to place such things ever before us; ..."
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