unpropitious
- a word derived from propitious.
Example Sentences
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She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
Some turned into entrepreneurs by seeking out unpropitious spaces with low rents to open pho and sandwich shops.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2019
Set in New York in the unpropitious years from 2007 to 2009, this moving, often funny novel revolves around Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant who finds a job driving for a bigwig at Lehmann Brothers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2016
It’s an unpropitious time for these unsavory details of committee malfeasance to emerge, what with the House imploding as it is.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2015
Nothing would be moving, for the day was unpropitious and instincts were blurred and not to be trusted.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
