unpropitiously

IPA: ʌnprʌpˈɪʃʌsɫi

Examples of "unpropitiously" in Sentences

So, unpropitiously, my acquaintance with Mr. Skelmersdale began.
The day that opened so unpropitiously, closed upon him, a ruined man!
It had begun, unpropitiously, with something very like a dispute between
He did not wait to continue a conversation so unpropitiously begun, but went off on a lonely exploring tramp along the shore.
On the left wing of the Christian fleet, the battle, which had begun so unpropitiously, was also brought to a prosperous issue.
But the boat he chartered, the unpropitiously named Mal di Testa—"headache" in Italian—capsized and was abandoned, Ms. Cook said.
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.
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.
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!
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.