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ominous
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1.
ominous clouds | the future was looking ominous
synonyms
: threatening, menacing, minatory, black, dark, gloomy, heavy, sinister, bad, unpromising, unpropitious, pessimistic, inauspicious, unfavorable, unlucky, ill-fated.
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ancients believing in ominous signs
synonyms
: oracular, augural, divinatory, prophetic, premonitory, prognostic, sibyllic.
antonyms:
promising; auspicious; propitious.
USAGE NOTES
fateful, forbidding, foreboding, portentous, premonitory
A sky filled with low, dark clouds might look
ominous
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Wilce, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda; being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms and a red dog.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; WILCE, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda; being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms and a red dog. Read by Danielle Ferland. 10 cds. 11.25 hrs. Recorded Books...
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Wilce, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda; being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms, and a red dog.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; WILCE, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda; being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms, and a red dog. Harcourt, Magic Carpet. 438p. c2007 978-0-15-205439-7...
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Ousting of editor viewed as ominous.(News)(Thomas Reese (resigned editor of America))
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...who were already worried about heavy-handed leadership by the Vatican say firing Reese, or pressuring him to resign, sends an ominous signal that the American church is headed for a trip to the principal's office. Is Rome's definition of faith simply a matter...
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Ominous Signs for Equity in Congressional Plans.(religious and conservative politicians on the attack against public education and agenda o programs by any liberal politician)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: School Administrator
; ...affirmative action programs and the redrawing of congressional districts for the purpose of creating majority-black districts. Ominous Activity Far worse is on the horizon. The House Subcommittee on Labor/Health and Human Services/Education Appropriations has...
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Ominous Appetites.(Review)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Marianne's nine- year-old daughter Isabelle (touchingly played by Michelle Gylemo). I do not wish to give away a plot full of ominous, even lethal, surprises. But I must state that nobody is entirely innocent here; before two and one-half hours elapse, everyone...
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An ominous sign from Venezuela.(foreigners are invading the country)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Market Latin America
; Venezuela's President has ordered officials to monitor the public remarks of foreigners visiting the country and has put foreigners on notice that if they criticize Venezuela or its officials, the critic will be thrown out of the country. According to a report distributed by the BBC on July 23,
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Ominous Oracle.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Information Age (London, UK)
; Database and applications giant Oracle endured a further fall in both revenue and net income in its latest quarter. Revenues for the third quarter of 2002 fell 17% to $2.2 billion, compared with $2.7 billion for the same period in 2001. Net income dropped 13% to $508 million, down from $582.7
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Pope sends ominous message to World Youth Day. (World Youth Day).
Magazine article from: Conscience
; In a special message for World Youth Day, Pope John Paul II has called on Catholic women to emulate St. Maria Goretti. Maria Goretti was an 11-year-old Italian girl, murdered while defending herself against a sexual assault by a neighbor in 1902. Pope Pius XII canonized her in 1950, making her the
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Antitrust verdict in Marshfield Clinic case still ominous.
Magazine article from: Physician Executive
; On December 31, 1994, a jury in a federal court case in Wisconsin found that the physician-controlled Marshfield Clinic and its HMO, Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., had engaged in anticompetitive, monopolistic practices to restrict the health care market in northern and central Wisconsin.
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Ominous outlook: America's fiscal future--with unprecedented liabilities and unfunded commitments--is grim indeed.
Magazine article from: State Legislatures
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The outlook for America's fiscal future is grim, says U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. And there are three big reasons: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. The federal government has made grand promises without solid plans for how it can keep solvent as baby boomers
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