Adjective : propitious weather. ,propitious omens. ,propitious gods. From Dictionary.com.
So, unpropitiously, my acquaintance with Mr. Skelmersdale began. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference
The day that opened so unpropitiously, closed upon him, a ruined man!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Guest] Reference
It had begun, unpropitiously, with something very like a dispute between. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Waddington of Wyck] Reference
The listlessness and the melancholy which are apt to accompany love, especially where unpropitiously placed, were not visible on the surface of this strong nature. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollstonecraft] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
Instead of partaking in any of the long round of Christmas merry-makings which we had so unpropitiously commenced, we now spent our evenings at home; truly enjoying the greatest of earthly blessings, domestic felicity. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1] Reference
Great court pageants and festivities hailed the marriage of Carr with the divorced Lady Essex, and the proudest of England's nobility vied with each other in doing honour to the two vile persons thus unpropitiously united. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852] Reference
But certain events befell unpropitiously at a time when the baron was most certain of his conquest; at the very time, indeed, when he had determined to open his suit definitely by extending a proposal to the young lady through the orthodox medium of her nearest male relative. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
7,000, which he enjoyed staying in so much, is called, rather unpropitiously, Road to Nowhere. some14some at 07: 16 AM JST - 8th February. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Reference
"We witnessed the great interest that was manifested, and the talents that were displayed, during a long discussion on the eligibility of different counties for the site of the College; and we witnessed, during the numerous ballotings that took place, the hopes and fears that alternately enlivened and depressed the expectations of the Trustees -- and we confess we were inclined to augur rather unpropitiously of their future unanimity and success; but after the question of location was settled, they magnanimously sacrificed their private feelings and interests to the general welfare of the Institution, and cordially united in adopting measures best calculated to carry it into successful operation. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference
Do not fancy I am such an enthusiast, as to imagine, I am either in my own practice, or that of my rural neighbours, infallible; no, I know that among all mankind, there is a general mixture of good, and evil; the difference is this; in the great world, they are so unpropitiously blended, the lustre of the former, is nearly lost, in the more extensive influence, of the latter; so that the evil appears by far the most predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale] Reference
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