as in ominous
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
this many problems so early in the project is a most inauspicious sign
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Recent Examples of inauspicious
His day, however, got off to an inauspicious start.
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Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Widely hailed as a model by European politicians pushing a tougher line on migration, the project has endured an inauspicious launch.
—Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
The ongoing violence in Sinaloa has created an inauspicious start to the beginning of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term in office.
—Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
But Carter's exit from the White House after what many critics decried as a largely ineffectual single term marked the beginning of what became the most consequential post-presidency in U.S. history – made even more remarkable by its inauspicious start.
—Mark Updegrove, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Widely hailed as a model by European politicians pushing a tougher line on migration, the project has endured an inauspicious launch.
—Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
The ongoing violence in Sinaloa has created an inauspicious start to the beginning of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term in office.
—Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
But Carter's exit from the White House after what many critics decried as a largely ineffectual single term marked the beginning of what became the most consequential post-presidency in U.S. history – made even more remarkable by its inauspicious start.
—Mark Updegrove, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inauspicious
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Something ominous, if not entirely novel, is taking shape in Washington.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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In the winter, the opening acts like a chimney for the warmer water below, giving the spring a steaming underworld look and its ominous name.Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2025
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Feathers tends to wear cutesy disguises, but comes across as a surprisingly sinister creature who is always observing.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Now the star and filmmaker are trading Wakanda and the boxing ring for an original vision: a Depression-era vampire movie about twin brothers (Jordan plays both) who return to their Deep South hometown, only to find something sinister waiting.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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That inter-zone between the two is where Lynch lived his entire professional life: in his paintings and writings, shorts and TV shows, and even his daily online weather reports, which somehow took on both a boyish and a menacing quality.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
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The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Inauspicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inauspicious. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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