unfavourable
adjective
not favourable; adverse or inauspicious
unfavourableness
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a word derived from
unfavourable.
Example Sentences
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This result, indeed, came out the more characteristically, because of the singular unfavourableness of the season, wherein he made his first trial, for the objects of the adventure.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby
Could she be relied upon to rep resent her brother unfavourably, with the right colour of unfavourableness?
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
Her fever became more violent; her delirium was stronger; and the tortures of her imagination were proportioned to the unfavourableness of the state in which the removal had been effected.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Sydney was originally in the state that Perth presents now; but there the natural unfavourableness of the soil has been entirely overcome.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
To these causes of mortality, so much the more active from operating on bodies already exhausted or enfeebled, was added the unfavourableness of the season; obstinate rains, followed by more obstinate drought, and violent heat.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
