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bar sinister

noun as in evidence of illegitimacy

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Example Sentences

The bar sinister was on his shield; his credentials were the advice of an unreal person to fight in common with the whites.

Brindle is so pedigreed I don't believe he would thank you for the bar sinister you put on him.

The bar sinister stayed him from Broadweald, so the judges had said, and haughty Fitzooth had perforce to bear with their finding.

The forgotten deeds of desperate valor—all useless now, and stained forever with the bar sinister of his treason.

It is utterly impossible to draw a bar sinister—such a thing does not exist.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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