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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ominously
 (ad.)不吉利地;不祥地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Om·i·nous a.  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
    He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.   --Bacon.
    In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.   --South.
 -- Om*i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om*i*nous*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ominously
      adv : in an ominous manner; "the sun darkened ominously"