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How to pronounce bar sinister in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bastardy, illegitimacy
Type of position, status
Type Words
Synonyms bend sinister
Type of mark, stigma, ordinary, brand, stain

Examples of bar sinister

bar sinister
Don't you see that they would have preserved a wise reticence in regard to such a shocking bar-sinister in their escutcheons?
From the theatlantic.com
Lashing out with a classic one-two combination, Cassius opened up a gash so bloody one awed onlooker insisted that Cooper must be a bar-sinister Alfonso.
From the time.com
Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister.
From the time.com
Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar.
From the time.com
You can feel the breath of Scarlett O'Hara in the bar where the flamboyant barman, Roosevelt, will knock up a potent mint julep of his own sinister devising.
From the independent.co.uk