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"sinister relationship" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to a relationship between two people, places, or things that is potentially harmful or dangerous. For example: "John and his neighbor had a sinister relationship, and no one in the neighborhood felt safe around them."
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This is a formidable meditation on art's sinister relationship with violence.
Everyone, or almost everyone, has a secret identity, a hidden, often sinister relationship to a culture based on death and the threat of death.
Byatt is concerned with the complex, often sinister relationship between parent and child, which she explores through various works of art — pottery, puppet shows, fairy tales — using them to refract and illuminate the larger narrative.
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Francis also dismissed sinister whisperings about his relationship with his predecessor, describing living with Benedict in the Vatican as "like having … a wise grandfather living at home".
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Millions believed that such relationships represented some sinister threat to the gene pool; that it was somehow cruel to bring up mixed-race children.
A new art book of literary and photographic works consider the more discordant and sinister sides of love and relationships.
In our post-Freudian world, such an adult/child relationship is fraught with sinister connotations, especially in connection with the nude photography of little girls.
Paedophiles and other sex offenders know no demographic; they operate in all strata of society and often take advantage of trusting relationships in a most sinister fashion.
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