bar sinister

== English == === Alternative forms === Bar-Sinister bar-sinister === Noun === bar sinister (usually uncountable, plural bars sinister) (heraldry, considered nonstandard) A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms. (idiomatic, euphemistic) The state or characteristic of having been born out of wedlock; illegitimacy; bastardy. (idiomatic, by extension) A state or characteristic which is dishonorable or shameful; a stigma. 2013 Sep. 13, Dr. Yogendra Yadav, "Present Generation and Mahatma Gandhi, Peace and Collaborative Development Network (retrieved 4 April 2014): Then there is untouchability. . . . There are thousands of men and women like me who cling to Hinduism; because they believe that there is in it the amplest scope for mental, moral and spiritual expansion. This bar sinister put upon nearly sixty million human beings is a standing demonstration against that claim. Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism. It is an excrescence. === References === “bar sinister”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.