adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an auspicious/inauspicious start (= one that makes it seem likely that something will be good or bad )
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His second term in office has got off to an extremely inauspicious start.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
start
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His second term in office has got off to an extremely inauspicious start .
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All three of us in the introductory course are auditors, an inauspicious start .
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From their inauspicious start , the pair could hardly be closer now.
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At Plymouth, despite an inauspicious start , a fine first spring had improved the Pilgrim spirits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The loss was an inauspicious beginning to Darling's baseball career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A member of the picturesque Aberfoyle Golf Club, with a respectable 15 handicap, Roy remembers his inauspicious beginnings.
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After an inauspicious début as part of a band, Amos went solo and relocated to London.
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All three of us in the introductory course are auditors, an inauspicious start.
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At Plymouth, despite an inauspicious start, a fine first spring had improved the Pilgrim spirits.
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His second term in office has got off to an extremely inauspicious start.
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In spite of an inauspicious beginning, Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country.
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In view of these circumstances, the Combined Fleet plan for Midway could hardly have come at a more inauspicious moment.
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On those inauspicious occasions the candidate was Frank Robson, a market trader who lives near Darlington.