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ill-omened

  • adjective satellite marked by or promising bad fortune
    ill-starred; ill-fated; doomed; unlucky.
    • their business venture was doomed from the start
    • an ill-fated business venture
    • an ill-starred romance
    • the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
WordNet
Ill`-o"mened adjective
Definitions
  1. Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.
Webster 1913