bar sinister as a noun: - 1
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bar sinister
noun
1 bar sinister
The status of being born to parents who were not married.
synonyms: bastardy, illegitimacy.
Roget 964:
lawlessness;
illicitness;
breach of law,
violation of law,
infraction of the law;
disobedience
etc.
742;
unconformity
etc.
83.
arbitrariness
etc.
adj.;
antinomy,
violence,
brute force,
despotism,
outlawry.
mob law,
lynch law,
club law,
Lydford law,
martial law,
drumhead law;
coup d'etat [Fr.];
le droit du plus fort [Fr.];
argumentum baculinum [Lat.].
illegality,
informality,
unlawfulness,
illegitimacy,
bar sinister.
trover and conversion [Law];
smuggling,
poaching;
simony.
[person who violates the law]
outlaw,
bad man
etc.
949.
v..
offend against the law;
violate the law,
infringe the law,
break the law;
set the law at defiance,
ride roughshod over,
drive a coach and six through a statute;
ignore the law,
make the law a dead letter,
take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle,
run,
poach.
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Roget 651:
imperfection;
imperfectness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
peccancy
etc.
(badness)
649†;
immaturity
etc.
674.
fault,
defect,
weak point;
screw loose;
flaw
etc.
(break)
70;
gap
etc.
198;
twist
etc.
243;
taint,
attainder;
bar sinister,
hole in one's coat;
blemish
etc.
848;
weakness
etc.
160;
half blood;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
drawback;
seamy side.
mediocrity;
no great shakes,
no great catch;
not much to boast of;
one-horse shay.
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2 bar sinister
A mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left.
synonym: bend sinister.
Roget 874:
disrepute,
discredit;
ill repute,
bad repute,
bad name,
bad odor,
bad favor,
ill name,
ill odor,
ill favor;
disapprobation
etc.
932;
ingloriousness,
derogation;
abasement,
debasement;
abjectness
etc.
adj.;
degradation,
dedecoration†;
a long farewell to all my greatness
[Henry VIII];
odium,
obloquy,
opprobrium,
ignominy.
dishonor,
disgrace;
shame,
humiliation;
scandal,
baseness,
vileness†;
turpitude
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
infamy.
tarnish,
taint,
defilement,
pollution.
stain,
blot,
spot,
blur,
stigma,
brand,
reproach,
imputation,
slur.
crying shame,
burning shame;
scandalum magnatum [Lat.],
badge of infamy,
blot in one's escutcheon;
bend sinister,
bar sinister;
champain†,
point champain†;
byword of reproach;
Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.];
sense of shame
etc.
879.
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