A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.
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Ill-omened
Synonyms for "ill-omened" (50 found)
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Adjective(7 words)
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δύσφημος adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
French
1 entries- de mauvais augure adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- وارون adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
Spanish
2 entries- de mal agüero adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
- de mal fario adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
Turkish
1 entries- uğursuz adj (inauspicious, unlucky)
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Don't say such ill-omened things.
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But heedless, blind with frenzy, one and all / up to the sacred citadel we strain, / and there the ill-omened prodigy install.
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Ill betide those foul birds that delight to file their own nest, and disgust the ear with perpetual discord of ill-omened croak.
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