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