How To Use unpropitious In A Sentence
- Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
- It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
- Their marriage began unpropitiously when the groom - intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties - took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel.
- Nevertheless, even under these almost blasphemously unpropitious circumstances, the place seems to make a profound impact. The Times Literary Supplement
- In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
- In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
- Sheridan the unpropitiousness of the season, particularly for a first experiment in authorship, and advised the postponement of the publication till October. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
- Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
- Wang also mentioned that her Chinese name sounds unpropitious.
- But why revive the founder's show at all at so unpropitious a time? The Times Literary Supplement
