Sinister: adjective
1. threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous:
a sinister remark.
2. bad, evil, base, or wicked; fell:
his sinister purposes.
3. unfortunate; disastrous; unfavorable:
a sinister accident.
4. of or on the left side; left.
From the Latin sinistra: on the left hand or side, hence unfavorable, injurious
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My mother is left-handed and was forced as a child in school to write right-handed. I thought of asking her if she remembers when she chose to be left-handed. But it would not be kind.
ReplyDeleteI am a recusant soft-paw.
ReplyDeleteWere you aware that one who is ambisinistrous is clumsy or unskillful with both hands?
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