Sinister may refer to:
- The left side (viewers right side) of an escutcheon or coat of arms in heraldry, see dexter and sinister
- Left-handedness
- Bend (heraldry), Bend sinister, heraldic charge
- Baton sinister, diminutive of the bend sinister
In film:
- Sinister (film), a 2012 horror film starring Ethan Hawke
In comic books and literature:
- Mister Sinister, Marvel Comics supervillain
- Sinister Six, Marvel Comics supervillain group
- Sinister Twelve, Marvel Comics supervillain group
- Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, comic-related video game
- Sinister Dexter, comic book
- Simon Bar Sinister, villain on the Underdog cartoon show
- Bend Sinister (novel), novel by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Sinister Signpost, Hardy Boys novel by Franklin W. Dixon
In music:
- Sinister (band), from the Netherlands
- Sinister Footwear, orchestral ballet by Frank Zappa in three movements
- The Sinister Urge (album), album by Rob Zombie
- Sinister Slaughter, album by the band Macabre
- Bend Sinister (album), album by the band The Fall
- If You're Feeling Sinister, album by the band Belle & Sebastian
- If You're Feeling Sinister: Live at the Barbican, live album by Belle & Sebastian
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Famous quotes containing the word sinister:
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency;
There was peace on earth, and silence in the sky;
Some could, some could not, shake off misery:
The Sinister Spirit sneered: ‘It had to be!’
And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, ‘Why?’”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I’m trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)