All 4 Uses of
inauspicious
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- * Scott, of course: "The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death.†
Chpt 33-34
- If my pardon be complete, we shall return triumphant to Yanina; if the news be inauspicious, we must fly this night.†
Chpt 77-78 *
- No one who had seen the magistrate at this moment, so thoroughly unnerved by the recent inauspicious combination of circumstances, would have supposed for an instant that he had anticipated the annoyance; although it certainly never had occurred to him that his father would carry candor, or rather rudeness, so far as to relate such a history.†
Chpt 77-78
- She was in tears, and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like a meteor seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.†
Chpt 79-80
Definition:
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(inauspicious) not auspicious; i.e., showing signs that things will go poorly