inauspicious
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Definition of inauspicious
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Synonyms & Antonyms for inauspicious
Synonyms
baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
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Standing in a hallway of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Sullivan recalled an inauspicious start to his new job. — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, "A day in the life of a United States senator: Dan Sullivan," 18 Aug. 2019 Jimmy Garoppolo’s training camp has been inauspicious — up-and-down at best — and his Wednesday practice was, without a doubt, his worst performance of the preseason. — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, "Kurtenbach: Jimmy Garoppolo’s nightmare practice highlights a big concern for the 49ers," 14 Aug. 2019 The team had an inauspicious start to the season and limped into the playoffs with a 3-4 record. — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, "Team Green shines bright with three-peat performance," 1 Aug. 2019 The set got off to an inauspicious start for Bouchard, who was aced as Townsend’s first left-handed serve twisted away from her. — Matt Szabo, Daily Pilot, "Orange County Breakers outlast Philadelphia Freedoms, move into three-way tie for third in World Team Tennis," 23 July 2019 Juve picked up 91 points during the 2015/16 season, four more than the previous campaign, losing just two of their final 32 games after an inauspicious start filled with three defeats in their opening six. — SI.com, "Massimiliano Allegri: The Masterful Tactician Who Won Serie A Five Times in a Row," 20 June 2019 Few could have predicted Gray’s productivity after an inauspicious start to his NFL career. — Jim Mcbride, BostonGlobe.com, "John Hannah ideal choice to honor ex-teammate, good friend Leon Gray," 20 July 2019 More than 1,200 higher-education institutions have closed in the past few years due to inauspicious economic circumstances eerily evocative of the context in which Yankton found itself back in the ‘80s. — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, "The College That Became a Prison," 12 July 2019 But this is hardly the first time the F-16, one of the U.S. Military’s five kinds of fighter jets, has made headlines for inauspicious reasons. — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, "An F-16 Fighter Jet Crashed into a California Warehouse," 17 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inauspicious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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