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US
/ˌɪˌnaʊˈspɪʃɪs/
]
[ UK /ɪnɔːspˈɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnɔːspˈɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
presaging ill fortune
my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven
a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
a dead and ominous silence prevailed
ill predictions
ill omens - not auspicious; boding ill
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contrary to your interests or welfare
made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions
adverse circumstances
How To Use inauspicious In A Sentence
- For me, the season started out inauspiciously with an email from long-time friend and colleague Steve Tracton also a CWG contributor when he learned about me joining the group. My perceptions of winter, a review: Part I
- When the exact character and effects of their policy defy simple articulation, something inauspicious is afoot. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
- The cooking competition series 'seventh edition opened inauspiciously when just 1.8 million people tuned in. Top Chef DC Finale: Who Will Be Named Top Chef?
- He wanted to make sure that he doesn't eat during the 'inauspicious' period. The Times of India
- Oh no, there's nothing inauspicious about your side of the bed.
- Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the pair of them had an unorthodox, but happy marriage that lasted until Charlotte's death in 1943.
- My follicular kingman homes for sale drowse fractiousness me this scrum to lender inauspiciously his defenseless panicle, his disorganisation to curb, and his steradian for noncausative to mustache. Rational Review
- To lose one leader in inauspicious circumstances is pretty bad. Times, Sunday Times
- These ‘genuine shifts in cohesion and cooperation’ the editorialist writes about did not arise from an inauspicious conjunction of the stars.
- It began, inauspiciously, as a summer league team, but its dizzying ascent to prominence since then has been nothing short of meteoric.
