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Ill-boding

Ill-boding \Ill`-bod"ing\, a. Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened. ``Ill-boding stars.''
--Shak.

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ill-boding

a. which bodes evil, spelling bad things

Usage examples of "ill-boding".

All through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.