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Sinistrously   Listen
adverb
Sinistrously  adv.  
1.
In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
2.
With a tendency to use the left hand. "Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed."





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"Sinistrously" Quotes from Famous Books



... been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude), I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them. Everyone overflowingly aboundeth in his own sense and fancy; yea, in things of a foreign consideration, altogether extrinsical and indifferent, which in and of themselves are neither commendable nor bad, because they proceed ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... — N. sinistrality^; left, left hand, a gauche; sinister, nearside^, larboard, port. Adj. left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal^, sinistrorse^, sinistrous^; laevo- [Pref.]. Adv. sinistrally, sinistrously^. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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