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unpropitious

How to use unpropitious in a sentence

The moment is all the more propitious given the weakness of rivals like Party City and the large drugstore chains.

This country was so cold and sterile and unpropitious that winter predominated, and it was difficult to support life.

His mind was harassed by unpropitious dreams, and in his weariness his pursuers came upon him unawares.

Perhaps this is only figurative, as in the case of the unpropitious forest-deities.

The varieties which are growing there seem to be rather better adapted to withstand the unpropitious surroundings.

During the succeeding years, Detroit was again one of the points towards which an unpropitious fate pointed a finger.

To use force against a dervish would be looked upon as an exceedingly unpropitious affair to the true believer.

And they are so superstitious that some, I presume, will attribute the unpropitious sky and wind to our influence.

MARY AND ISTEPHEN RETURN RIGGS

This was in 1805, when the state of things in Holland was extremely unpropitious for every undertaking of a literary nature.

The weather—that important auxiliary—this year was unpropitious a greater portion of the week.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985