While most sightings turn out to be nothing more sinister than house cats, some are harder to explain.
Injured in a car accident, she unwisely hires the sinister Peter as her assistant.
Mr Levy said there was nothing sinister about his application, which is still available outside France.
These latest allegations have a more sinister, warlike cast that is new to most ears.
Arthur Conan Doyle's stories also evoke Victorian London with its sinister fogs, a pasture for predators.
Yet Mr Preston argues otherwise, citing his ties with Josif Grigulevich, a sinister NKVD agent.
Polish historical sensitivies about Russia mean that many see the coincidence as sinister rather than tragic.
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Which brings us to an underlying cause of these daymares and sinister thoughts -- sleep deprivation.
But Biden ups the ante by insinuating Republicans trying to ease financial regulation harbor sinister intentions.
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On the walk home, I found streets seething with characters of the most sinister variety.
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It has more sinister undertones and it is not quite as silly as Lock, Stock.
The tone is less sinister than you might expect, but infused with an acute, critical restlessness.
Managers' pay has grown faster than workers' pay, but the reasons for this are not sinister.
The generals' favourite newspaper, Hurriyet, has printed sinister photographs of Mr Birdal's parley with the rebels.
There is, moreover, a more sinister explanation of the yen's rise: higher government borrowing.
In Russia, this state of affairs need not be the result of a sinister master plan.
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He also dismisses the notion that sex selection would lead to a more sinister form of eugenics.
Californian artist Paul McCarthy creates a more sinister note with "Apple Tree Boy Apple Tree Girl" (2010).
The attack has been condemned by Prime Minister John Key, who expressed his shock over the "sinister" incident.
Fitting for a band in love with a fuzzed-out sound, something sinister lurks below the seemingly romantic songs.
Pakistan insisted the helicopter had encountered nothing more sinister than a blast of dynamite clearing a landslide-blocked road.
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The train station where Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) arrives in a swirl of sinister smoke still stands on Railroad Sq downtown.
The first part of that claim seems to be largely true, though there is nothing sinister about it.
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"I would encourage you not to be so certain that there's something sinister going on here, " Williams said then.
Law enforcement agencies say that the electronic age has made crime more sinister - and criminals harder to catch.
It sure gives a certain sinister meaning to the phrase - "next please".
Or does he grasp all of that, and the explanation is more sinister?
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Caf spokesman Suleiman Habuba had previously told BBC Sport that there was nothing sinister in Kanoute winning the accolade.
The jaunty "They Took a Vote and Said No" arrives complete with a hummable chorus and a sinister underbelly.
Such calculations are far from sinister, but are an absolute necessity of continued existence and, as such, perfectly moral.
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