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Sinistrously   Listen
adverb
Sinistrously  adv.  
1.
In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
2.
With a tendency to use the left hand. "Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed."





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"Sinistrously" Quotes from Famous Books



... disclaimest the devil, be not guilty of Diabolism. Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others. Degen- erous depravities and narrow-minded vices! not only below St Paul's noble Christian, but Aristotle's true gen- tleman.* Trust not with some that the Epistle of St James is apocryphal, ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne


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