Clues for the word "SINISTER"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 77 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of sinister
- a. - On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
- a. - Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
- a. - Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
- a. - Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Referring Clues
- Dark
- Up to no good
- Ominous
- Menacing
- Base
- *Ominous
- Bad
- Like Snidely Whiplash
- Disquieting
- Threatening
- On the left side, in Latin
- Evil
- Villainous
- Baleful
- Darkly evil
- Left at home to occupy a sibling
- The Fall "Bend ___"
- Threatening - ominous
- Spooky
- Left nurse clutching hip
- Evil in punching nun
- Malign
- Forbidding nun tours Ulster
- Suggestive of evil
- Threatening what was left to Caesar
- Health worker embraces trendy left
- Left with threatening air
- Left in dark
- Evil nurse detained at home
- Wicked
- Evil, evil is a tailless bird!
- Left relative keeping home
- Evil misdeed is followed by some terror
- Not quite resisting terrible evil
- Evil crime I back no end
- Knocking back endless wine is ominous
- Ominous, nun going round home
- Ominous sign's last one received by nun
- See 6
- Word from the Latin for "left"
- Being left is rather frightening
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 07, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 12, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 22, 2023
- Daily American - July 20, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 05, 2023
- USA Today - December 17, 2022
- Your Life Choices - November 27, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - November 12, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 07, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 07, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 18, 2022
- Guardian Quiptic - January 01, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - November 02, 2017
- Mirror Quick - October 15, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - October 03, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - September 23, 2017
- Daily American - July 20, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 21, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 05, 2017
- And in 47 more crossword puzzles...