bar sinister

Example Sentences

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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

One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister.

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Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared James Smithson all his life.

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But there is always the little flaw, the bar sinister as it were, which they hope to override through influence; through my influence, which I may state, they never get.'

From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by Ottolengui, R.