Reeve Gootch was right and Reeve Drughad was sinistrous!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
At last he got quite dexterous -- and sinistrous, too, for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Greenish eyes, it is asserted, have the same general meaning as gray eyes, with the addition of selfishness or a sinistrous disposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
He lived in obscurity, and only went out at night; he only communicated with his fellows with the most sinistrous precautions. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference
The foregoing remark so fitly tells us of our own participation in the same sinistrous line that we can not but borrow them to preface what follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Era Vol. 2 No. 2] Reference
And, therefore, so many, who are sinistrous unto good actions, are ambi-dexterous unto bad; and Vulcans in virtuous paths, Achilleses in vicious motions. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Morals] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference
And concerning the small variations which they contain, we can fitly quote the words of a fine old English scholar, Bentley: "Even put them into the hands of a knave or a fool, and yet with the most sinistrous and absurd choice, he shall not extinguish the light of any one chapter, nor so disguise Christianity but that every feature of it will still be the same.". From Wordnik.com. [The Books of the New Testament] Reference
For the first part of this Confession of faith, there is not a word changed in it; and if so be that men had keeped that part of it free of sinistrous glosses, and had applied it according to the meaning of those who were the penners thereof, there needed not to have such a thing ado as there is now; but because they have put sinistrous glosses upon it now and misapplied it, therefore it behoved to be explained and applied to the present time. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference
A man, who by long consideration has familiarized a subject to his own mind, carefully surveyed the series of his thoughts, and planned all the parts of his composition into a regular dependance on each other, will often start at the sinistrous interpretations or absurd remarks of haste and ignorance, and wonder by what infatuation they have been led away from the obvious sense, and upon what peculiar principles of judgment they decide against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
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