How To Use unpropitious In A Sentence
- Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
- I may instance his derivation of dismal from Latin dies mali, unpropitious days, derided by Trench, but now known to be substantially correct, and his intelligent conjecture that the much discussed word yeoman 'seemeth to be one word made by contraction of yong man,' an etymology quite recently revived — July 1921 — by the Oxford Dictionary. On Dictionaries
- No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
- Born unpropitiously into a man's world, she plays the role of a woman exuding exemplary tolerance.
- Not because they drink water, but because the state of mind which makes them dread alcohol is unpropitious to the hatching of any generous idea.
- Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
- Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent.
- Our men arrive at an unpropitious moment, just as Robert Mugabe drives a new set of repressive laws through his parliament and puts his foot on the necks of human rights organisations.
- The work begins unpropitiously with the words: ‘After so much that has been written on this subject… it is difficult to say anything new upon the subject.
- The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location.