ill-omened

How To Use ill-omened In A Sentence

• Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
• During the tour visitors walk to an impressive overlook to peer into the ill-omened pools of bubbling, black, steaming liquid.
• According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
• The ill-omened page of postmodern historicism has been definitively turned.
• Benny Lynch originated the stereotype of the ill-omened Scottish champion.
• When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. Arabian nights. English
• Ill-omened hag! unshriven be her sins nor mercy visit her on dying bed, i. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• With this ill-omened report in his hand, Goering stepped out of the door of Hitler's salon.
• Devil, whilk is but an ill-omened drouthy name for a tavern. The Fortunes of Nigel
• The good news, therefore, is that naturally unlucky people don't have to accept their apparently ill-omened fates.