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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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But things have taken on more sinister overtones since then.
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Slummers, or something more sinister .
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As I gazed on this incongruous tableau, however, the scene gradually took on a more sinister aspect.
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Fujisaki will probably rule next week on whether defense lawyers can draw a more sinister inference from the delay during closing arguments.
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Knedliky, when it arrived, was nothing more sinister than dumplings cut into half-inch-thick slices.
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But within the context of a self-defeating organizational behavior system, minimizing serves a larger and more sinister purpose.
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They are visited by spectres of childhood terror, the debonair Cosmo Disney and most sinister , the masked Pitchfork Cavalier.
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The most sinister event has just occurred.
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Growing in the most sinister manner, it is embedded in a battle scene taking place across the River Nile.
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Some ten meters from the center of the dome was a most sinister sight.
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Trust acquires its most sinister building David Green Only the crumbling shells of the buildings can now be seen.
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The overall effect was most sinister: I was not surprised that superstitious servants should be fearful of the thing.
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Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat.
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But superimposed across the scene were a set of shadows of most sinister appearance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A sinister figure lurked in the shadows.
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a sinister laugh
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Her dark eyes and evil laugh made her seem sinister .
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The man was dressed in a black suit and wore dark glasses. There was something sinister about him.
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There may be more sinister forces at work behind the scenes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As I gazed on this incongruous tableau, however, the scene gradually took on a more sinister aspect.
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Daffy keeps reappearing to Richard as a ghost, unstoppably loquacious and with a joviality that turns increasingly sinister .
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Not even a sinister black cat, but a large and lazy-looking tabby.
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Some might say it's a sinister way to spend your time.
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The drawing style is rough and abrasive, the heavy blacks underlining the sinister plotting of Silver and his renegades.
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The First Couple looks sleazy and careless but not necessarily sinister .
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Their presence was all the more sinister amidst the approaching thunder of anticlericalism.