When the exact character and effects of their policy defy simple articulation, something inauspicious is afoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference

Unknown Aussie buys Bradman's "inauspicious" debut bat for 145,000 dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

He wanted to make sure that he doesn't eat during the 'inauspicious' period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

And recent releases have been pretty inauspicious. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Mgm Roar Again?] Reference

Nothing could have been more inauspicious or unlucky.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Thus ended the first inauspicious settlement of Weymouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

The inauspicious influences of the heavenly bodies are described by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

But UST couldn't have "dot-commed" itself at a more inauspicious time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failing Grade] Reference

Haiti's summer is getting off to an inauspicious and foreboding start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eli Y. Adashi: Tinderbox Haiti: Could All Out Violence Be Too Far Behind?] Reference

To the address the following inauspicious answer was returned from King.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

They are now listening to the fierce and inauspicious cries of jackals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The worry is compounded by yet another inauspicious omen -- a heat wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apocalypse When] Reference

The result was that the signs respecting Huascar were also inauspicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

It was at this inauspicious moment that a distinguished princess reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

In spite of this inauspicious beginning, she was presently singing over her work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Almanacs were therefore sold, with directions how to avoid the inauspicious times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

He should avoid all kinds of inauspicious discourse and all acts of unrighteous injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

English constitution, having been inauspicious to the domestic interests of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Mr. Pitt's situation, however inauspicious for his real being, was favourable to his fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference

It was an inauspicious takeoff for a film that hadn't seen the last of its logistical hoops.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Wing Story: The Making Of 'Air Force One'] Reference

On the national-security front, last week was inauspicious if not frightening on several levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life In The Ostrich Years] Reference

Repeatedly uttering inauspicious and fierce cries those creatures are now dragging their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

He had heard of his precious doings, and reports of his inauspicious marriage were already abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

Similarly, an ugly woman with every inauspicious mark is seen to pass her days in great happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Wednesday is dreaded for a lunar change, and in the south of France the inauspicious day is Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

All fast-days and vigils should also be avoided as marriage-days, they being considered inauspicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

The idea of the inauspicious nature of the day was long prevalent, and is even not yet wholly extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference

'He who presses,' he adds, 'towards what is auspicious and avoids what is inauspicious is a perfect man.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

"I called for the purpose of paying my respects to Mrs.Eld. If the moment is inauspicious I will call again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

Neither could the augurs sitting at Rome divine what inauspicious circumstance had occurred to the consul in the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

Aunt Deborah came in smiling and inauspicious, with a well-filled bowl of porridge and a generous pitcher of milk on the tray.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia] Reference

The fall of the tree only served to alarm the weaker members of the party, to some of whom, perhaps, it appeared as an inauspicious omen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

There was a time when his aunt had had mercy on him and had come into his life despite the inauspicious marriage that her sister had made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference