inauspicious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INAUSPI'CIOUS, adjective [in and auspicious.] Ill omened; unfortunate; unlucky; evil; unfavorable. The war commenced at an inauspicious time, and its issue was inauspicious The counsels of a bad man have an inauspicious influence on society.
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