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• a  not auspicious; boding ill
• s  contrary to your interests or welfare
• s  presaging ill fortune
  my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley

• Some pregnant women with babies due around the date scheduled their births for earlier, to avoid leaving their children with an inauspicious birth date.
• There are no tears until he starts talking about his oldest son's inauspicious first year at college, seeing his father the presidential candidate on television regularly for the .
• For a prize widely considered the world's most prestigious, the Nobels had a surprisingly inauspicious beginning.

• unfortunate
• adverse
• untoward
• ill
• ominous

• auspicious

News & Articles

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• WSTBL Roundup: Flannery fans 14 in Central Penn's win over Mt. Holly
  Despite an inauspicious first inning in which he allowed two runs on three hits, Tim Flannery carried Central Penn to a 5-2 win over Mt. Holly.
  June 12, 2013 - The Sentinel

Quotes

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• George Washington in Mathaba.Net
  In his Farewell Address in September, 1796, Washington said: "Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
• Ian McGeechan in FOXSports.com
  Speaking about Saturday's game, McGeechan said: "We are obviously delighted to have made it to the Final, particularly from such an inauspicious beginning in September and October. It will be a great occasion. Wasps versus Leicester is always a...
• St Brendan in Bloomberg
  The second half of the year is off to an inauspicious start,said Brendan Caldwell, president of Caldwell Securities Ltd., which oversees the equivalent of $377 million in Toronto. "Earnings numbers will be strong this quarter, but...