auspicious
adjective
promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable.
unauspicious
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a word derived from
auspicious.
Example Sentences
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The car drove up in front of the office of the justice of the peace in the town beyond that in which they had had their unauspicious luncheon party.
From Outside Inn by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley
What! to perverseness? you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out That e'er devotion tender'd!
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
“That’s rather an unauspicious beginning to our trip,” commented Berwick.
From Frontier Boys in the South Seas by Wyn Roosevelt
What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st off'rings have breath'd out That e'er devotion tender'd!
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
You uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st off'rings hath breath'd out That e'er devotion tender'd!
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
