What is "sinisterly"

Usage examples of "sinisterly".

Then she walked down to the nick, feeling the freshness of a blowy morning which had brought various seagulls this far inland to toss themselves on the high breezes, or perch on roof-ridges looking, with their fierce curved beaks, somehow sinisterly displaced.

Indeed it has become hard these days to attend a scientific conference on themes associated with learning, memory and computer models thereof without finding a strongly hovering US military presence, whether navy, air-force or the somewhat sinisterly acronymed DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

A monotonous medium pace, tromp tromp beat so dominated everything that it had a hypnotic, almost sinisterly mindless quality.

But the best of all he had discovered in a small shop specialising in Oriental medicines (sent thither by a Chinese waiter) -- a powerful black viscidity that oozed sinisterly from a tube to bring wind up from Tartarean depths.