Sentence examples for used for sinister from inspiring English sources

On his blog in Le Monde, Pierre Assouline posts an extraordinary essay about a new book, "Ville Lumière, Années Noires" ("City of Light, Years of Darkness"), in which the writer Cécile Desprairies documents buildings in Paris that were used for sinister purposes by the German occupiers and their French collaborators, official and not, during wartime.

The authors highlight the "dual-use" dilemma, as described in the report, as the paradoxical use of technology developed for the benefit of mankind being used for sinister purposes.

The World at Risk report addresses the 'dual-use dilemma' of biotechnology, stating that: "at the same time that [biotechnology] has benefited humanity by enabling advances in medicine and agriculture, it has also increased the availability of pathogens and technologies that can be used for sinister purposes" [ 1].

The first, as evidenced by Russian bots, is that AI has the propensity to be used for the sinister spread of misinformation; the second, as evidenced by numerous disasters with racist AI, is that it is difficult to create a universal code for making moral machines.

But she, like a few other Latvian women, was used for profit in an even more sinister way.

When used for other causes, it is portrayed as sinister.

This was stimulated by the increased availability of poisons; shops known as apothecaries, selling various medicinal wares, were open to the public, and from there, substances that were traditionally used for curative purposes were employed for more sinister ends.

(7th Heaven sold not just music, but also a wide array of sinister models that I later found out were used for smoking marijuana).

He gets kidnapped by sinister, rectangular-shaped members of the French mafia and gets transported across the ocean to Belleville to be used for strange and nefarious purposes.

Gee Voucher (2010 and 2007) used collage to sinister effect, while Dominic Thackray's best work (2009 and 2006, above left) played around with typefaces and the metal printing blocks used for typesetting.

He did not use his money for sinister ends.