ill-omened
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of ill-omened
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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If it were twice as bad three days hence, I should not care, but it would be grievous indeed if Switzerland were to take leave of me with so ill-omened an aspect.
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We observed the warning and made the best possible time to a cranny in the ill-omened “Windy Cape.”
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"There!" he exclaimed, stopping just in front of me, and holding out the ill-omened book—"There! you can tell me who that is, can't you?"
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A barque passed between the blazing pile and our ill-omened craft.
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Perhaps she is not less happy now that the ill-omened, fateful splendors of the Palais Royal no longer help to make a gilded cage for the darlings of her nursery.
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