Definition of "inauspicious" []

• Not favorable; not auspicious. (adjective)

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• "When the exact character and effects of their policy defy simple articulation, something inauspicious is afoot."
• "He finished an 'inauspicious' shotgun anthology of Russian poetry, from Fet to Esenin to Ryzhii, in formal and experimental translations and is currently at work on a selected poems of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, to come out in '09 from Whale and Star Press."
• "Many render [Greek: duocheres] 'inauspicious', 'ill - omened'; but as we do not know exactly what was in Demosthenes 'mind, it is better not to give the word a meaning which it does not bear elsewhere."