"inauspicious" in the adjective sense
1. inauspicious, unfortunate
not auspicious boding ill
2. adverse, inauspicious, untoward
contrary to your interests or welfare
"adverse circumstances"
"made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
3. ill, inauspicious, ominous
presaging ill fortune
"ill omens"
"ill predictions"
"my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley
"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
"a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
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