Definition of "ill-omened" [ill•-o•mened]

• Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky. (adjective)

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• "Disease, urban contamination and quickened mortality were ill-omened consequences of this noxious abyss."
• "The pineys are a collection of Appalachian-esque people so inbred and ill-omened they are basically cut off from the rest of the world, both by choice and by circumstance."
• "Both diseases, as Sontag pointedly noted, were similarly “obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”"