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Synonyms for bar sinister
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of bar sinister
- noun evidence of illegitimacy
- 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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