Unpropitious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNPROPITIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• not propitious
• (of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable

Words related to UNPROPITIOUS

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How to use UNPROPITIOUS in a sentence

• The season was unpropitious, the lingering effects of the autumnal equinox rendering it more than probable that the passage would be tempestuous.
• The season anterior to his last visit had been a very unpropitious one, and he was much dissatisfied with the management.
• The commencement, however, was unpropitious, and very often a stumble at starting makes the whole journey limp.
• Judging by what one knows of wedding-days, it could hardly be supposed that there could be a more unpropitious moment for the consummation of marriage.
• The times were unpropitious to the buttered-toast question, and it had quite slipped out of my mind.
• It needed such affection as ours to induce us to the undertaking in such unpropitious weather.
• He consulted his astrologers, and they declared the stars to be unpropitious to Gustavus.
• Thus it was that Eva, determined at keeping her appointment with the inventor at all costs, entered the hallway at just this unpropitious moment.
• A considerable impression would probably have been produced, had not the weather proved exceedingly unpropitious.
• But the weather during the winter proved singularly unpropitious for such a ceremony.
• But those boys were satisfied that they were having a perfectly blissful time, and were serenely happy in defiance of unpropitious surroundings.
• The times were unpropitious, for the wars of the Fronde at that time made the whole country a scene of confusion and danger.
• This state of things is less unpropitious to angling than might be expected.
• The Red Sea lay there beyond the uplifted line of desert sand, and it was the birthplace of many mists and unpropitious signs.
• Nothing but the momentum of a will already made up kept his intention turned to the climb, so unpropitious was the time, so utterly lonely the place.
• At the corner of Bouverie Street they met a painted girl out for hire, strayed for some reason into this unpropitious locality.
• Where the climate is unpropitious, or the quantity of manure applied is insufficient, it is possible that transplanting may promote heading.
• The campaign in Italy was unpropitious to the queen of Hungary and the king of Sardinia.
• The weather, too, was very unpropitious for the trial, notwithstanding which a very large number of gentlemen were present.
• At this time the weather was most unpropitious, and rendered training in any shape or form out of the question.
• However, it was part of the war, and the men were doing their best under most unpropitious circumstances.
• In the present case the weather was on the whole unpropitious.
• Yet for many a day the Fates seemed most unpropitious.
• The weather was too unpropitious to admit of our seeing much of the environs of the town.
• But in spite of this heroic sacrifice, the gods were unpropitious.
• As it seemed an unpropitious moment for taking counsel with Mr.
• If the reader has followed thus far he has a tolerably fair notion of the unpropitious and eccentric surroundings amid which Field worked immediately after coming to Chicago.
• But in proportion as the outside had looked unpropitious, were we agreeably surprised on entering.
• It is so unpropitious to European life that the pestilential breath of death may be said to lurk in every calm, and to be wafted in every gale.
• He might still tremble at signs and portents, at comets, at dreams, and at the unpropitious behaviour of birds and beasts.
• If the omens are now favorable, the work may be resumed, but should they still be unpropitious, it is folly to proceed, for disaster is certain to follow.
• The plan of putting the Southern States wholly and the General Government partially into the hands of negroes is proposed at a time peculiarly unpropitious.
• A thousand times have I cursed the unpropitious stars which withheld from her a fortune.
• Alexis, notwithstanding the unpropitious promise of his youth, proved one of the wisest and best princes Russia had known for years.
• I did not know that the season was so unpropitious.
• And there he halted, confused and blushing in recognition of circumstances as unpropitious as unforeseen.

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