(a.) Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Substitutes Ricardo Quaresma (for Ronaldo, 25) 7 Started inauspiciously, needing treatment after a tackle from Umtiti and after a clash of heads with Evra, but went on to play well on the wing.
(2) And they gave us the word “euphemism” in the first place – “to use a favourable word in place of an inauspicious one”.
(3) In an inauspicious start to talks over awarding Greece a third bailout , international officials have postponed the negotiations after failing to agree with their hosts where they will stay and how they will operate when in Athens.
(4) Marriage delays were also affected by horoscope problems, delays in elder brother's and sister's marriages, poverty of parents, gossip about premarital relations, physical deformities of the girl, and the combination of inauspicious dates.
(5) Carousel , which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success , met with disaster.
(6) Similarly inauspicious are concomitant low antigenic activity in tumor and IgC deficit or a marked dysimmunoglobulinemia.
(7) It was by all accounts an inauspicious stateside debut, with the then 24-year-old showing very little that afternoon to indicate he’d be world heavyweight champion in less than three years’ time.
(8) If anyone has the brazen confidence to take on such an inauspicious project, it is Stuart Lipton, a man who exudes the self-assurance you might expect of someone who has built almost 30m sq ft of commercial space in London over the past 30 years.
(9) Both forms verify that in certain cases favourable, compensating components must be taken into account, however, sometimes this effect could be inauspicious.
(10) After this inauspicious start, the Conservatives lost the general election a year later.
(11) The British bronze medal winner’s snowboarding odyssey has taken her from an inauspicious start on a dry slope in Churchill to an Olympic podium finish.
(12) There are certainly headwinds in Australia, magnified by inauspicious foreign currency movements, but we have been consistently cost conscious and are transforming our publishing operations longer-term into multi-platform businesses.
(13) Respiratory infections are particularly frequent in aged subjects and cause severe and often inauspicious complications) such as compromised cell-mediated immunity.
(14) The sale got off to a messy and inauspicious start.
(15) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(16) BT Sport, launched on Thursday night by its parent company in a bold £1bn bid to take on Sky Sports , will hope that it is not an inauspicious sign that one of its heavily trailed "ambassadors" might be about to trade the Premier League for La Liga.
(17) His resignation added to the inauspicious start for the FPC, a key plank of the coalition's policy to rid the City of the "light-touch" regulation pursued by Labour which proved so disastrous – or "tragic", as US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner called it last week.
(18) An afternoon that got off to an inauspicious start, when stewards confiscated a banner protesting against Welsh involvement in Team GB at the Olympic Games, ended on a much happier note, as Gary Speed celebrated another highly impressive performance from a side who are growing in confidence with every game.
(19) Dumbarton only managed four draws in that time, as they crashed out of the Scottish First Division and got off to an inauspicious start in the second.
(20) Two goals down against the San Jose Earthquakes in the California Clásico, it looked as if Gerrard’s league debut would offer little respite from the miserable and inauspicious end to his Liverpool career.
Unlucky
Definition:
(a.) Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
(a.) Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
(a.) Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(2) Hull were not exactly unlucky, they simply did not create enough from open play to deserve anything from the game, though Brady could hardly have come any closer to scoring.
(3) This weekend's games see Palermo engaged in a local derby with Messina, while Lazio host Sampdoria and Milan visit Chievo (whose hometown of Verona is regarded by Mialnisti as particularly unlucky).
(4) Although Speed had presided over five victories and five defeats in his 10 matches in charge of the principality, there were plenty of encouraging signs in Speed's stewardship, not least that four of the wins came in the past five games, with an unlucky 1-0 defeat by England at Wembley the only blemish.
(5) Yes, Khodorkovsky has been very unlucky in his fate, but we, his compatriots, have been unbelievably lucky: the party of human dignity is today embodied by an individual who conducts himself in a model fashion and does not bend or break under pressure.
(6) To cure Alzheimer’s, we first need to figure out why some of us are unlucky enough to get it.
(7) I’m nothing special, I’m just a nurse doing her job who got unlucky and caught a virus.
(8) There is nothing that anybody can do to pool their risk with the rest of the population, you just have to hope that you are not unlucky.
(9) Isaac Rosenberg's insignificant military career and unlucky end were sadly all too common in the first world war and would not be of any special interest had he not emerged as one of the most powerful poets of that war.
(10) She had a horrible taste in men, or was incredibly unlucky,” said Swingle.
(11) The Tories are likely to to face criticism for making those people unlucky enough to lose out in the lottery of serious illnesses in old age being penalised again by having all their assets above £100,000 being sequestrated by the state.
(12) The Argentinian playmaker picked up the loose ball and was unlucky to see his curling shot drift wide.
(13) I am one of the unlucky ones as my ancestors emigrated in the 19th century to Australia and eventually returned to Britain.
(14) Last season we were unlucky in the semi-finals and this season we would like to carry on the good work,” Cech said.
(15) While accepting Italy had been unlucky to be knocked out, Blatter urged restraint on the part of Italy's outraged team, officials and supporters, saying that not only the officials but their players had made decisive mistakes.
(16) If the worst part of the task will be whittling his initial 30 choices down to 23 and informing the unlucky seven, ask him what he is most anticipating and Hodgson is unequivocal: "I am looking forward to that first victory and I hope it is the first game so we are off and running."
(17) "I can say with my hand on my heart that it was not deliberate ... it was just my Norman Wisdom moment, just one of those unbelievably unlucky things that can sometimes happen.
(18) They ignore the poverty that exists for the children who are unlucky enough to live in areas labelled as “affluent” – they’re whitewashed as “having it all” thanks to the average local income.
(19) Even before lanes were finished some cyclists squeezed between fences to use them, an unlucky few crashing into barriers marking the end of completed sections while riding at night.
(20) Given we'd have to make claims for at least four unrelated repairs a year to end up spending that £186 saving in excess payments (and, surely, we'd have to be really unlucky to need that many again), going for the Flexi option looks very attractive.