How To Use Unpropitious In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
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Born unpropitiously into a man's world, she plays the role of a woman exuding exemplary tolerance.
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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.
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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.
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Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent.
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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.
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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.
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The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location.
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However unpropitious the news from Canterbury, however downcast by events at The Oval earlier in the week, Shane Warne was far from a cowed figure at Sophia Gardens yesterday.
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Perhaps unreasonable times are unpropitious for a fundamentally reasonable, levelheaded sensibility with an instinct to deflate.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious.
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One of the most unpropitious decisions a performing arts company can erroneously make is to stage a production in an ill-suited venue.
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The little boy, who slipped and fell so unpropitiously a few days ago, lies fretting in his bed in the cramped room.
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No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
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Despite such unpropitious omens, Raistrick believes that Scotland should ‘go for it’ and submit a bid to stage the 2003 World Indoor Cup, with the two most likely venues being in Glasgow or at Bell's Sports Centre.
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Cæsar might be ready to go to war; but if the Pontifex Maximus at Number XI opens any one of five pigeons and pronounces its entrails unpropitious, then the legions must stand down.
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It's a wonder he got any further in his refereeing career after so unpropitious a beginning.
The Star (South Africa)
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We all admired him, in these rather unpropitious circumstances, and then it was time for action.
Times, Sunday Times
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It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
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Their marriage began unpropitiously when the groom - intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties - took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel.
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Nevertheless, even under these almost blasphemously unpropitious circumstances, the place seems to make a profound impact.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
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In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
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Sheridan the unpropitiousness of the season, particularly for a first experiment in authorship, and advised the postponement of the publication till October.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
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Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
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Wang also mentioned that her Chinese name sounds unpropitious.
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But why revive the founder's show at all at so unpropitious a time?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
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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.
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He took up the canal as an issue at an unpropitious time; he generated so much popular support that the skeptics in the political class had to bow to it; he presided over both the groundbreaking and the completion.
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He witnessed also the disgrace of his bow Gandiva and the unpropitiousness of his celestial weapons.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
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The prime minister is pursuing it in circumstances so unpropitious that they would have been unimaginable even eight months ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building.
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Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system.
