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Bend sinister

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Noun
  1. 1
    A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from the sinister chief (the viewer's top right) to the dexter base, sometimes erroneously held to indicate bastardy.
  2. 2
    a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left wordnet
  3. 3
    Bastardy, (by extension) a defect or stigma. dated, figuratively

    "A ‘bend sinister’ ran athwart his reputation as a priest. Men muttered that he was an infidel, a blasphemous vagabond, versed in all the damnable heresies of antiquity."

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