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from The Century Dictionary.
- Inauspicious.
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- adjective Inauspicious.
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- adjective
inauspicious
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Examples
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Besides, there remained some who, after the conflict at Culloden was over, could even view the enterprise as having been by no means unauspicious.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, possessed with that unblest and unauspicious passion for Sicily, which afterward the orators of Alciabes's party blew up into a flame.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884
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The Queen, knowing that there were no large ships, nor ports to hold them in the obedient Provinces, would be unauspicious, if no greater levies seemed to be making than the exigencies of the Netherlands might apparently require.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The Queen, knowing that there were no large ships, nor ports to hold them in the obedient Provinces, would be unauspicious, if no greater levies seemed to be making than the exigencies of the Netherlands might apparently require.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The Queen, knowing that there were no large ships, nor ports to hold them in the obedient Provinces, would be unauspicious, if no greater levies seemed to be making than the exigencies of the Netherlands might apparently require.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The Queen, knowing that there were no large ships, nor ports to hold them in the obedient Provinces, would be unauspicious, if no greater levies seemed to be making than the exigencies of the Netherlands might apparently require.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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After an unauspicious opening act it was good that we had the telegram authorizing our entry form the Ministry of Tourism.
RVABlogs 2010
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To thee, the fortune of the fatal field Inclining, unauspicious fame shall yield;
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