bar sinister
Example Sentences
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Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister.
From Time Magazine Archive
One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared James Smithson all his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bar sinister would matter but little then;—would be clean forgotten.
From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
