Sentence examples for sinister reputation from inspiring English sources

Does the number 13 deserve its sinister reputation?

Told later of Svare's accusations, Davis was willing to perpetuate his sinister reputation.

Mr. Jiang, who is himself a senior Communist Party official, seemed sensitive to Xinhua's vaguely sinister reputation.

And beneath the strange combination of rural quiet and nighttime glitz, the place has a very sinister reputation.

Tells how in 1961, the U.S. went to DefCon 2 and how Gen. Thomas Power, LeMay's successor, had a sinister reputation.

Madrasas have a somewhat sinister reputation today, but it was these institutions that kick-started the revival of medieval European learning.

Many addicts suffer brain damage and speech impediments from the drug, but it is from the fact it often causes blood vessels to burst - leaving strong-smelling gangrenous wounds to fester on the body - that krokodil acquired its sinister name and reputation.

And even then, he knows he will have to answer to a more sinister kind of fame: his reputation as a mentally disturbed firebug.

ADIA's investment may not solve Citigroup's woes but it could help to shift the reputation of sovereign investors from sinister to supportive.

But, during a Sinn Fein rally to protest his arrest, Bobby Storey — a close friend of his and a longtime Party operative with a thuggish reputation — alleged that there were sinister motives behind the investigation.

Fringed mandibles [third maxillipeds] suggest a permanently turned-down mouth, giving them a disgruntled, unhappy expression; they were disagreeable rather than sinister and fell far short of their reputation.