Ill-starred in a sentence as an adjective

This whole endeavor was fairly ill-starred from the beginning.

Ill-starred definitions

adjective

marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

See also: doomed ill-fated ill-omened unlucky