Definition of "ill-boding" [ill•-bod•ing]

• Portending evil; inauspicious. (adjective)

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• "Chrysler Group LLC The sound of the Cherokee at full whoop—a dark-soaring and portentous cackle, an ill-boding pressure wave like a string of distant daisy-cutters—is exceedingly pleasant, says Mr. Neil."
• "I would also mildly observe that the sound of the Cherokee at full whoop—a dark-soaring and portentous cackle, an ill-boding pressure wave like a string of distant daisy-cutters—is exceedingly pleasant."
• "That will put to rest all ill-boding parallels with the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and their allegedly ominous consequences."