sinister

Indyke’s lawyer said there was “nothing remotely sinister in the use of such entities” and there was no effort to hide that Epstein owned them.

It is, at times, delightfully demented, a family film with a weird streak — perhaps at times even a slightly sinister one.

The clouds look sinister in the darkness and shroud any stars that may have been visible.

But there is something that is in some ways more sinister than clearly identifiable drones used by countries that are openly at war.

The sinister figure lurking in the drama is Bernard Faÿ, a French writer and enthusiast of things American, whom Stein and Toklas had befriended in Paris.