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
It had begun, unpropitiously, with something very like a dispute between Horatio and Fanny.
From Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair
The Chancellor, more relieved than he would have acknowledged, reflected before a fire and over a glass of hot milk that he was rather unpropitiously bringing Karl a bride!
From Long Live the King! by Mary Roberts Rinehart
He afterwards wrote an account of this first meeting, which is interesting because of the closer relationship to which an acquaintance so unpropitiously begun was to lead.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
