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"sinister man" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone whose behavior evokes a feeling of fear or foreboding. For example, "The children shivered when they saw the sinister man lurking in the shadows."
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A sinister man?
— with an oily, sinister man who takes her virginity.
Will her romance with a mysterious and possibly sinister man who calls himself Kalden change her view of the company?
The cover of the Post was a photograph of a slightly sinister man, looking like a dealer, in a top hat and face paint — an evil Pied Piper.
She's alienated from her surroundings and trying to ignore the sleazy clientele – who is that sinister man in the mirror?
John Goodman is terrific as Masterson, the sinister man of wealth with a weakness for young women and random violence.
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For years, he explained, his dreams had been peopled by the dead, and by sinister men.
The sinister men invariably attacked him, Mr. Bender said, and whenever they did, the unnamed dead rose up in his defense.
Meanwhile politely sinister men in black suits stalk him as he travels across the States.
The novel follows Tim's efforts to save a 10-year-old girl from some sinister men and to come to terms with the memory of his father.
JCG Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop On the morning of his 30th birthday, Josef K is arrested by two sinister men in dapper suits.
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