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Losing the first game was an inauspicious beginning to the season.inauspicious = unfavorable
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She interpreted the bad weather as an inauspicious sign of things to come.
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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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It was an inauspicious beginning. (source)inauspicious = showing signs that things will go poorly
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President Kennedy is proceeding with his trip to Europe at a most inauspicious time. (source)inauspicious = unfavorable
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"What a depressing and inauspicious end to our adventures," said Horace. (source)inauspicious = unfavorable
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The November trip started off inauspiciously.† (source)
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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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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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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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And it had begun in a most inauspicious fashion.† (source)
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It was evident that they did not like the outlook of a voyage under such a captain and begun so 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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In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.† (source)
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Inauspicious.† (source)
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