ADJECTIVE
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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
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