ill-omened

ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by or promising bad fortune
    their business venture was doomed from the start
    an ill-starred romance
    an ill-fated business venture
    the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons
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How To Use ill-omened In A Sentence

  • The building narrative progresses through ill-omened and distorted imagery of horses ill in a hospital and gaping splits in reality.
  • She broke the walls of His study, setting every ill-omened text of unclean lore alight.
  • I was reminded of Maxwell Smart's ill-omened Cone of Silence.
  • And as in the words akolouthos and akoitis the alpha is substituted for an omicron, so the name Apollon is equivalent to omopolon; only the second lambda is added in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon). Cratylus
  • On the second day of October, her evil family gave to her two ill-omened crows.
  • I am not certain I could strike at any one of the ill-omened Wade family without partaking of your curse myself.
  • I could feel a maddening mixture of emotions percolating inside of me, and I had the distinct, ill-omened feeling that everything was going to rush to a boiling point tonight.
  • His birthday was ill-omened, for it found him afflicted by influenza.
  • Why did Ella and I have to go to that ominous, ill-omened party on that fateful, fateful day?
  • When his wife saw this, she said, “I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;” and he answered her, saying, “All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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