This everyday phrase takes on a new, more sinister meaning in context.

His chosen form of address took on new and sinister meanings here in the blackness.

But it is unwise to look for too much sinister meaning here.

All I say is, there's no need to go reading any sinister meaning into them.

Her every, action seemed fraught with some sinister meaning.

The affiliation had none of the sinister meaning so often attached to it.

But it could have other, more sinister meanings as well.

He recalled the conversation in the glade; it took on a new and more sinister meaning.

The language is dexterous in giving sinister meanings to familiar words.

In certain areas, however, the messages carry more sinister meanings.