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sinistre

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adjective
  1. scary
  2. sinister, ominous
nounmasculine
  1. accident, incident
  2. disaster

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  • Maria frissonna tout à coup et songea aux secrets sinistres que cache la forêt verte et blanche.Maria shivered suddenly and thought of the sinister secrets of the green and white forest.B1Maria Chapdelaine
  • Je vous trouve un air sinistre.I think you look awful.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • Il y avait dans l'atmosphère je ne sais quoi de pénible et sinistre.There was in the atmosphere I don't know anything painful and sinister.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
  • Si je m'abandonnais, comme eux, à ces pensées sinistres, loin de vouloir retracer les événemens qui ont signalé sa naissance et ses progrès, et de me complaire dans la relation des faits qui l'honorent, je ne trouverais de voix que pour gémir sur son tombeau.If I abandoned myself, like them, to these sinister thoughts, far from trying to trace the events that have signaled his birth and his progress, and to complacent me in the relationship of the facts that honor him, I would find no voice but to groan on his tomb.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I

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