In an inauspicious manner; unluckily; unfavorably.
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ad. in an inauspicious manner
Word Usage
"The narrative begins inauspiciously in 1654 with the arrival of 23 Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam, whose governor, Peter Stuyvesant, greeted them as "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ.""