terrible luck;  very bad luck
 ferocious;  brutal;  atrocious;  savage;  barbarous
 atrocious;  fiendish;  brutal;  villainous
 dangerous weapon;  lethal weapon;  deadly weapon;  murder weapon
 ringleader;  main culprit;  main cause;  source
 most ominous;  most sinister;  most atrocious;  most evil
 bad luck (result from fortune telling);  evil countenance
 bad news;  news of a death;  death notice
 scoundrel;  ruffian;  villain
 catastrophe;  assassination;  calamity;  disaster
 doom;  fate;  misfortune;  disaster
 the four inauspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
 villain;  outlaw;  assassin
 extreme brutality;  atrocity;  heinousness;  heinous nature
 great harm (esp. to a person);  murder