Sample sentences for INAUSPICIOUS

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not auspicious; i.e., showing signs that things will go poorly

It is not to be wondered at, that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
John Jay -- Federalist Papers

In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
'To praise children is inauspicious, or I could listen to this talk.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
The November trip started off inauspiciously.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
If my pardon be complete, we shall return triumphant to Yanina; if the news be inauspicious, we must fly this night.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter Sixteen — AN INAUSPICIOUS START
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
Two months after Colleen arrived home I celebrated my fortieth birthday in a most inauspicious manner, namely, by myself.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
'So delighted,' said Mrs Merdle, 'to resume an acquaintance so inauspiciously begun at Martigny.'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
And it had begun in a most inauspicious fashion.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
My relationship with Zeke Skimberry and his family started slowly and inauspiciously but gathered momentum and intimacy as the year passed.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
What I meant was that the place you chose was so horrid—I suppose I ought not to say horrid—I mean gloomy and inauspicious in its associations....
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Our people agreed and would have granted these, but Zeus by inauspicious omens changed their minds.
Homer -- The Iliad
The meeting had an inauspicious beginning.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
It was an inauspicious beginning.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
And in my case, it started inauspiciously.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
"What a depressing and inauspicious end to our adventures," said Horace.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
It was evident that they did not like the outlook of a voyage under such a captain and begun so inauspiciously.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
He began to reflect upon the events that had passed; they were numerous and inauspicious.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
One inauspicious circumstance there was, which awakened a hardly concealed displeasure in the breasts of a few of the more punctilious visitors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
It was inauspicious.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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