unpromising
Example Sentences
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Then there was World War II. Given Cooper’s eye injury and poor physique, he made for an unpromising soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
"We started with a site so unpromising that no-one had ever tried to excavate it - that's very rare in Italy," Dr Alessandro Launaro, the study's author said.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023
To figure out how to revegetate this unpromising ground, Olympic National Park hired then–36-year-old Chenoweth.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023
From this unpromising site have risen stacks of factory-built steel modules punctuated by little green spaces.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
