The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inauspicious \In`aus*pi"cious\, a.
Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky;
unfavorable. ``Inauspicious stars.''
--Shak. ``Inauspicious
love.''
--Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. --
In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an inauspicious manner.
WordNet
adv. in an inauspicious manner; "he started his new job inauspiciously on Friday the 13th" [syn: unpropitiously] [ant: auspiciously, auspiciously]
Usage examples of "inauspiciously".
In a week most of the pain had left him, and he was beginning to chafe under restraint In ten days he was “fit to be tied,” and his acquaintance with his head nurse, so inauspiciously begun, developed even more inauspiciously as time went on.
An evening which began so inauspiciously was one of the most significant of my life.
In the past few minutes she'd been transported from fear and rage that her life might end so inauspiciously, to astonishment when he'd kissed her.
He was dressed inauspiciously in a long woolen coat buttoned over his slender frame.