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Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

aped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. The love we bear our friends... Hath in it certain oblique ends. Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power. De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, o…

ale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a forei…

Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

y diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

he blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

s considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.