Sample Sentences for
inauspicious
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    President Kennedy is proceeding with his trip to Europe at a most inauspicious time.  (source)
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    Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.  (source)
    inauspicious = not promising
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    It was an inauspicious beginning.  (source)
    inauspicious = showing signs that things will go poorly
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    Chapter Sixteen — AN INAUSPICIOUS START  (source)
    INAUSPICIOUS = showing signs that things will go poorly
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    And in my case, it started inauspiciously.  (source)
    inauspiciously = in an unfavorable manner
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    On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Tales abound of one or another climber who decided to remain in his or her sleeping bag after detecting some inauspicious vibe in the ether and thereby survived a catastrophe that wiped out others who failed to heed the portents.†  (source)
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    The November trip started off inauspiciously.†  (source)
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    But all the names with 'Mame' turned out to be inauspicious for me, according to the fortune-teller.†  (source)
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    My relationship with Zeke Skimberry and his family started slowly and inauspiciously but gathered momentum and intimacy as the year passed.†  (source)
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    The meeting had an inauspicious beginning.†  (source)
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    In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.†  (source)
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    He was almost as good as his word, although the next three days proved inauspicious for the flight first because of a cloud cover at ground level, and secondly because the ski-equipped plane had developed a severe limp as a result of the collapse of one of the hydraulic cylinders of the landing gear.†  (source)
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