Definition of "sinistrous" []

• Archaic Sinister; inauspicious. (adjective)

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• "Reeve Gootch was right and Reeve Drughad was sinistrous!"
• "We had, in our passage to Mull, the company of a woman and her child, who had exhausted the charity of Col. The arrival of a beggar on an Island is accounted a sinistrous event."
• "Greenish eyes, it is asserted, have the same general meaning as gray eyes, with the addition of selfishness or a sinistrous disposition."