Sentence example with the word 'unpropitious'

unpropitious

adversary, baneful, cross, foreboding, ill-timed, irrelevant, off base, out of time, somber, unhandy

Definition adj. not propitious

Last update: October 26, 2015


0

The fall in prices was aggravated, first by the unpropitious weather and deficient harvest of the years 1816, 1817, and still more by the passing in 181 9 of the bill restoring cash payments, which, coming into operation in 1821, caused serious embarrassment to all persons who had entered into engagements at a depreciated currency, which had now to be met with the lower prices of an enhanced one.   [Please select]

0

Sowerberry looking up, with a peculiarly unpropitious aspect, he stopped short.   [Please select]

0

The weather was unpropitious, heavy fogs lay on the water, dissipated occasionally by fierce outbursts of wind.   [Please select]

0

The unpropitious, rainy weather delays us now from day to day, as our ship; the Elizabeth,--(look out for news of shipwreck.)   [Please select]

0

For that was the strangely unpropitious, unproductive season of 1816, quaintly known in local annals as "1800 and Froze to Death."   [Please select]

0

To dream of being on docks, denotes that you are about to make an unpropitious journey.   [Please select]

0

A weird and uncanny moon, denotes unpropitious lovemaking, domestic infelicities and disappointing enterprises of a business character.   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
unpronounced - unpropitious - unprosperous