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• r  in an auspicious manner

• Thus propitiously starts twenty-seven-year-old Robert Hyde's first novel, written with variety of style, called, perhaps as a dare to critics, Crude.
• President Carlos Saul Menem began propitiously by finding buyers for Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTel), the notoriously inefficient telephone company.
• The trip did not begin propitiously for Haig: he was already miffed that Weinberger had commandeered Air Force 86970the posh 707 used by Henry Kissinger when he was Secretary .

• auspiciously

• inauspiciously
• unpropitiously