bend sinister
Example Sentences
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That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
There is a strange bend sinister in human nature, against sincerity, that will indulge itself even at the cost of life itself.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
All these families bear the arms described by your correspondent, but without the bend sinister.
From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
That a market should be held upon the Sabbath in this city, is a "bend sinister" upon its escutcheon.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Far better the bend sinister in his own class than a legitimate parent of the type of 'Gene Bisbee or D.V.
From The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
