unpromisingly
- a word derived from unpromising.
Example Sentences
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But it’s too striking a shot to dismiss as self-conscious or unpromisingly stern.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
They became stranded at a stream called Cooper's Creek, having found no way to carry enough water to cross a stretch of desert to the nearest colonial outpost at the unpromisingly named Mount Hopeless.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2019
He immediately launched his plan for a show that he wanted to call, unpromisingly enough, “Modern Architecture: International Exhibition,” in which he would display the latest advances of European and American modernist architecture.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2018
Their first, the unpromisingly named SS Mademoiselle, collapsed because their singer only wanted to practise one day a week.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2016
“I don’t want them for the reason you think I want them for,” Latimer replied; his voice was cold and hard, and his manner unpromisingly free from emotion or eagerness.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
