bar sinister
Example Sentences
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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
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
Whatever ills might overtake her, no bar sinister could ever mar, no breath of blame could cloud the lustre of this side of her family shield.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
