(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.
Untoward
Definition:
(prep.) Toward.
(a.) Froward; perverse.
(a.) Awkward; ungraceful.
(a.) Inconvenient; troublesome; vexatious; unlucky; unfortunate; as, an untoward wind or accident.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(2) The functional results are excellent and we did not find any untoward effects attributable to our technique.
(3) Certain untoward effects associated with the use of direct-current electrical catheter ablation of the ventricular endomyocardium have been noted.
(4) There were no untoward clinical laboratory side effects with the exception of the one cimetidine patient who experienced diarrhoea and a small number who showed slight, asymptomatic rise in plasma creatinine level.
(5) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(6) No untoward serious side effects have been observed, and the growth of children was not slowed.
(7) Oxytocin in both dosage schedules was well tolerated and no untoward side effects were observed.
(8) Hereditary cataracts, as well as congenital cataracts produced in response to untoward environmental input, can be properly understood only within a dynamic developmental context.
(9) The low milk levels, as well as the previously determined poor oral absorption of aztreonam, suggest a low risk of untoward effects in the nursing infant.
(10) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(11) We concluded that although triglycyllysine vasopressin significantly reduced portal pressure in patients with hepatitis B-related cirrhosis, it produced untoward systemic haemodynamic changes similar to those seen with vasopressin.
(12) The author reviews the literature reporting the untoward effects of withdrawing monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).
(13) This untoward event must be added to the growing list of complications associated with the placement of such catheters.
(14) He said nothing untoward had happened except the agency had issued a poorly worded press release, describing it as a mistake and “over the top”.
(15) No untoward reaction of any significance was noted.
(16) On ingestion of food items to which antibodies were demonstrated, no untoward symptom occurred nor was complement activation observed in vivo.
(17) Although both extracts induced some untoward allergic reactions, no adrenaline was used at any time during the study.
(18) Animal experiment did not reveal any untoward effect of 1.5% hydrogen peroxide on the local tissues exposed to the solution except a transient increase of lymphocyte infiltration and exudate.
(19) Thus, the untoward side effects of a tetracycline like minocycline which is a frequent complaint of the patients, appears to be due to a central disinhibition of the vestibular equilibrium regulating mechanisms.
(20) The most frequent untoward effects were low white blood cells count (29.7%), skin rash (16.2%) and low platelet count (13.5%).