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Synonyms for bar sinister


Grammar : Noun



Définition of bar sinister

  • noun evidence of illegitimacy
Example sentences :
  • You display no coat of arms that no bar sinister may be displayed.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Lilian Boyd is smart and ambitious but there is the bar sinister.
  • Extract from : « The Girls at Mount Morris » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.
  • Extract from : « A Son Of The Sun » by Jack London
  • I do not mean by this that any bar sinister defaced his escutcheon.
  • Extract from : « A Few Words About the Devil » by Charles Bradlaugh
  • That his coat of arms bore the "bar sinister," there was not the least doubt.
  • Extract from : « At Start and Finish » by William Lindsey
  • It was the weight that crushed her almost to lifelessness; it was the bar sinister.
  • Extract from : « The Daughter of Anderson Crow » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • At the same moment, verbally, he cast the bar sinister on my genealogy.
  • Extract from : « The Road » by Jack London
  • What luck did you have in keeping out others—even Utah, with its bar sinister of the twin relic of barbarism?
  • Extract from : « Problems of Expansion » by Whitelaw Reid
  • The bar sinister was on his shield; his credentials were the advice of an unreal person to fight in common with the whites.
  • Extract from : « John Ermine of the Yellowstone » by Frederic Remington
  • If I had him near at hand, and of my own blood too, though with the bar sinister, is not here the question.
  • Extract from : « Barry Lyndon » by William Makepeace Thackeray

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