propitious
adjective
presenting favorable conditions; favorable.
unpropitiously
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a word derived from
propitious.
Example Sentences
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Hero Ryder, who had ground-floor rooms, met Sebastian somewhat unpropitiously one night.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elizabeth was born unpropitiously into a man's world and a man's role.
From Time Magazine Archive
I came down again in very bad humour, and thought that the Carnival had commenced rather unpropitiously.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
The day that opened so unpropitiously, closed upon him, a ruined man!
From The Wedding Guest by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
But no king could have managed worse than he, no king could be more unfortunately and unpropitiously placed; and his own imprudence and folly hastened the catastrophe.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
