ill-omened

The pineys are a collection of Appalachian-esque people so inbred and ill-omened they are basically cut off from the rest of the world, both by choice and by circumstance.

Archive 2010-07-01

Disease, urban contamination and quickened mortality were ill-omened consequences of this noxious abyss.

Petrol Queen snippet

The pineys are a collection of Appalachian-esque people so inbred and ill-omened they are basically cut off from the rest of the world, both by choice and by circumstance.

Rabid Reads: "The Pines" by Robert Dunbar

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

The two of them were destined to travel together round the world before Sir Henry had become once more the hale, hearty man that he had been before he became master of that ill-omened estate.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars

Both diseases, as Sontag pointedly noted, were similarly “obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”

The Emperor of All Maladies

Both diseases, as Sontag pointedly noted, were similarly “obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”

The Emperor of All Maladies

Friend Porlock is evidently scared out of his senses -- kindly com - pare the writing in the note to that upon its envelope; which was done, he tells us, before this ill-omened visit.

Chennai

Both diseases, as Sontag pointedly noted, were similarly “obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”

The Emperor of All Maladies

What had seemed at the time an auspicious occasion had turned out to be the most ill-omened event in his life.

A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air