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• s  marked by or promising bad fortune

• Peasants cursed and blamed the ill-omened new radio stations.
• In Thailand every cloud, even one so dark as the ill-omened Year of the Goat, has a silverand sometimes a goldlining.
• On the Pacific coast of South America, midway between Chile and Peru and separating Bolivia from the ocean, lies the ill-omened nitrate-pregnant area of Tacna-Arica.

• doomed
• ill-fated
• ill-starred
• unlucky