auspicious
adjective
promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable.
unauspicious
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a word derived from
auspicious.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, possessed with that unblest and unauspicious passion for Sicily, which afterward the orators of Alciabes's party blew up into a flame.
From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White
Besides, there remained some who, after the conflict at Culloden was over, could even view the enterprise as having been by no means unauspicious.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
