The phrase "sinister intent" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a motive or purpose that is evil or harmful in nature.
Example: "The detective suspected that the suspect acted with sinister intent when planning the crime."
Alternatives: "malicious intent" or "evil intent"
I was an intruder, a foreigner who arrived unbidden into the neighborhood with a camera, a notebook, a deadline and oh-so-friendly intentions that concealed sinister intent.
Even where a reliable price-cost or profit-sacrifice test is feasible, failing it need not imply sinister intent.
The questions are highly charged because they are linked to the role of the state, a debate that begins in virtually every policy area with assumptions of sinister intent.
It would be relatively simple for someone with sinister intent to introduce foot-and-mouth disease, or other crippling livestock maladies prevalent on other continents that do not exist in North America, into herds of American livestock, he said.
Last fall on West 135th Street, a man whom he filmed without permission chased him for a block before Mr. Britto persuaded the man that he had no sinister intent.
Those who defended Raducan at the hearing sought an exception to the zero-tolerance policy, precisely because there was no sinister intent and because of her confidence that her doctor would not give her a banned substance.
Invoking cold-war language, the general counsel for another chemical company suggested that Carson was a front for "sinister influences" intent on restricting pesticide use in order to reduce American food supplies to the levels of the Eastern bloc.
The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
The Liberals portray the Conservatives as sinister social extremists, intent on importing dangerous neo-conservative ideas from the United States.
The tower's imprint, on the other hand -- less rapid and not as deep --seems a sinisteristracingcing of intent and tragedy.
The plane enthusiasts were cleared of the charges when a panel of judges ruled that the hobbyists harbored "no sinister motive or intent" during their visit to Greece to track NATO warplanes, said Ioannis Nikiteas, one of the lawyers for the defendants.
