Sample Sentences for
auspicious
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    Not the most auspicious start.  (source)
    auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
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    [regarding his laughing so much as a child] It seems like a rather "auspicious" beginning.  (source)
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    I chose an auspicious day, the third day of the third month.  (source)
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    Everything was auspicious.  (source)
    auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
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    This first venture outside her new home was not starting out auspiciously for Kit, but as they set out along the road she could not repress her curiosity and bouncing spirits.†  (source)
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    you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out That e'er devotion tender'd!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unauspicious means not and reverses the meaning of auspicious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    sunrise is the most auspicious moment for magic.  (source)
    auspicious = favorable
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    The day began auspiciously.†  (source)
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    Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav'n, and unavailing care!†  (source)
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    “That would be very auspicious,” said Ataba.  (source)
    auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
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    But the day did not close so auspiciously as it began.†  (source)
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    Let him give leave of speech, that haughty man, Whose pride this unauspicious war began; For whose ambition (let me dare to say, Fear set apart, tho' death is in my way) The plains of Latium run with blood around.†  (source)
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    The queen chose an auspicious time for her raid into Ulster.  (source)
    auspicious = favorable
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