Sentence examples for mean sinister from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lobban insisted that "secret does not mean sinister" or "unaccountable," and that there was no mass surveillance of ordinary citizens despite the gathering of huge amounts of Internet and telephone data.

Even prisms – once chiefly associated with rolling a joint on a Pink Floyd album cover – have been corrupted to mean "sinister faceless American spies rummaging through your digital bins".

It means frightening; it means sinister.

Since Sian chose as her two luxury items a tube of eight-hour face cream and a stuffed tiger she introduced to viewers as "Mr Bassey" (see what I mean about sinister?), this promises to provide a rich and ongoing source of conflict.

When Kimmel jocularly pressed her about the show's "surprise ending," one that could mean a sinister fate for either Ted or the mother, Hannigan was mum and pretended he was again talking about her daughter's birthday party.

He meant nothing sinister.

It is the education that is often wanting in a society for which vodou -- the Caribbean spelling of voodoo that she prefers -- means a sinister, primitive black-magic activity filled with dolls, zombies, snake handling and "a whole bunch of other crazy stuff," Ms. McAlister said.

"Read that way it sounds very sinister - it wasn't meant to be sinister.

Now, pro forma numbers mean something much more sinister and are becoming practically ubiquitous.

But powerful and sinister forces mean it can't stay in a plastic bag for ever.

To label this as somehow sinister must mean that the United States is engaged in "jazzwashing" or "techwashing" when it uses music or touts its high-tech innovators to audiences and opinion makers overseas.