He started his new job inauspiciously on Friday the 13th.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The evening began inauspiciously for the Mariners.    From Wordnik.com.  [American League Baseball - Yankees vs. Mariners] Reference

The panel discussion, however, began inauspiciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yale Entrepreneurs' Economic Analysis: Rah Rah Rah!] Reference

Not after the billing records turned up so inauspiciously….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chicago Tribune blames bloggers for Obama smears.] Reference

American as in English history, dawned not less inauspiciously upon the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

He does say a little, however, beginning rather inauspiciously by declaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

Major cried, knocking a blue plate over, and spilling the salt inauspiciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema] Reference

In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

He was born a year after my own Mary, most inauspiciously, during an eclipse of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Congratulations to Daniela for making a return to the Top 10 after an inauspiciously long absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wimbledon 2007: Women's Top 10 Preview] Reference

‘So delighted,’ said Mrs Merdle, ‘to resume an acquaintance so inauspiciously begun at Martigny.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

The cooking competition series 'seventh edition opened inauspiciously when just 1.8 million people tuned in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Chef DC Coverage: Season 7 Contestants, Liveblogging, Clips, Photos & Ratings] Reference

The cooking competition series' seventh edition opened inauspiciously when just 1.8 million people tuned in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Chef DC Finale: Who Will Be Named Top Chef?] Reference

Year six of the occupation began inauspiciously with a suicide bombing on Wall Street which killed 56 people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year Six of the Occupation] Reference

The latest primary began inauspiciously, as the touch-screen voting machine was not working when polls opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live blog: D.C. Primary Day 2010 evening -- Court rejects longer voting] Reference

It was evident that they did not like the outlook of a voyage under such a captain and begun so inauspiciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

The night began inauspiciously for the Kings, who were coming off Saturday's 107-104 overtime loss to Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Basketball Association - Suns vs. Kings] Reference

Also unflappable, including an inauspiciously silly early scene in which she mediates her way out of a coffee-shop holdup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roush Review: A Thursday Logjam] Reference

The North Fork begins inauspiciously at the Riverhead rotary where Route 24 takes you to the northern or Long Island Sound side of the North Fork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Long Island's North Fork] Reference

Where I couldn't control this, I'd make sure the project began inauspiciously, innocuously, just a zap around the complex and no doomsday whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

It started inauspiciously when we got into Albany at just before 11pm and were standing out front of Mahar's at 1230am and it was closed for the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Saturday dawned as inauspiciously as any other day in the week, but to the high school boys and girls of the little city of Sanford it was a day set apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference

This almost supernatural display of strength did not encourage either the Duke or any of his followers to renew a personal contest so inauspiciously commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

The campaign opened inauspiciously for the royalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference

The events of the year, so inauspiciously begun for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2] Reference

The new year began inauspiciously at the Queerington's.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill] Reference

The ninth inning opened inauspiciously for the home nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Boy at Hilltop] Reference

Their marriage, begun so inauspiciously, turned out to be ideally happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

Panasonic's convention in Munich is the inauspiciously-named TX-P65VT20E.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tech Digest] Reference

He calls in an expert who begins, rather inauspiciously, by painting the dining-room salmon pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

The shootout began inauspiciously for Anaheim when Perry fumbled the puck at mid-ice and had to go back for it before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

For both, the long journey toward racial integration started inauspiciously, by supporting separate-but-equal provisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yale Law Journal] Reference

The pumps had become almost unworkable, being choked with sand, and it became evident that the voyage thus inauspiciously begun would very soon be ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saved by the Lifeboat] Reference

Parliaments did the great Sydney-road begin thus inauspiciously, and hardly less pertinaciously disconcerting was the Brunswick swamp, three miles further on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria] Reference

Conscious that the union, which had so inauspiciously commenced, had been brought about by her, she exerted all her powers to promote friendly relations between the parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortense Makers of History Series] Reference