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inauspicious

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[ US /ˌɪˌnaʊˈspɪʃɪs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnɔːspˈɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. not auspicious; boding ill
  3. 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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