Adjective : propitious weather. ,propitious omens. ,propitious gods. From Dictionary.com.
It was an unpropitious beginning for the new term. From Wordnik.com. [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference
I did not know that the season was so unpropitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
From the very outset the voyage proved unpropitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
The evening announced for my lecture was unpropitious. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
It is unpropitious to lifelong affection for one person. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
With masculine obtuseness he chose the most unpropitious moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
It was at this unpropitious moment that Richard Bristed returned. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
It would be most unpropitious if she guessed much about his magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Had I grown up to this, in the unpropitious atmosphere of my own home. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
They have been placed in this seemingly unpropitious Salt Lake country. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
"Sire, I will tell yours, if you will, but the heavens are unpropitious.". From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
The day being so unpropitious, visitors had been few and sales very slow. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
It was an unpropitious moment for a theatrical venture in that part of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
If the elements are unpropitious the airship must venture nearer to its objective. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
It was Fumel, who, feeling he had chosen an unpropitious moment, shrank back timidly. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]
Thus it stood till that period, so dark and unpropitious for monkish ascendency, when. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
But the weather during the winter proved singularly unpropitious for such a ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
From the unpropitious regions of France our scene changes to the fertile fields of England. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Government partially into the hands of Negroes is proposed at a time peculiarly unpropitious. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
It is true that our place of meeting was a rather unpropitious one, but this did not satisfy me. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The times were unpropitious to the buttered-toast question, and it had quite slipped out of my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
The capital was too insignificant and the course of politics too unpropitious to accomplish this end. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
"I come for comfort, and I get Nechutes and all the unpropitious possibilities that his name suggests.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
In the second place, such simplicity in the apartments of young ladies of tender age is quite unpropitious!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
At this time the weather was most unpropitious, and rendered training in any shape or form out of the question. From Wordnik.com. [Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery] Reference
Hogarth seems to have received no other education than that of a mechanic, and his outset in life was unpropitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
It is more dreadful to be moaning over our own mistakes than over the inscrutable perversity of an unpropitious fate. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
The weather, too, was very unpropitious for the trial, notwithstanding which a very large number of gentlemen were present. From Wordnik.com. [Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap] Reference
Every looming cloud had a voice which spoke of the judgment to come; every unpropitious event awakened painful forebodings. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
Despite the unpropitious events of the afternoon, evening saw a merry little party in full swing in Judith's and Jane's room. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
Mexico, where slavery exists nominally, but is sure to die out under the hostile influences of unpropitious soil and climate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
The Red Sea lay there beyond the uplifted line of desert sand, and it was the birthplace of many mists and unpropitious signs. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Though it would be unpropitious to seem too anxious, each member of the clan found some pretext to get close enough to look inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
His constitution was strong enough; he had not lived a life of unpropitious preparation for a serious illness; but his heart was a danger. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
This has been an unpropitious sort of introduction, Dr. Roberts, but I hope I may be allowed to renew our talk without prejudice some time. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Bitter experience had taught that never was moment so unpropitious for errands like the present as when that cheerful dirge filled the air. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
At all events, he said that since the west was unpropitious, he would go round the city on the eastward side, and reach the South Gate that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
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