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Meanings of unpromising in anglès
Usage of unpromising in anglès
1
Hmmm: an unpromising start to that introduction, but a rather reassuring finish.
2
We must have been unpromising material from the military point of view.
3
Yet nothing could be more unpromising than the aspect of the country.
4
In matters of health, especially, men grasp at the most unpromising straws.
5
It made something domestic-justanother kind of neighbourhood-outof this unpromising material.
6
Under these unpromising auspices, the parting took place, and the journey began.
7
No morbid vanity of self-bolstering could make the outlook anything but unpromising.
8
We had now got through the most unpromising part of our task.
9
The clearing process, however, in this unpromising spot, was going on vigorously.
10
That body was certainly starting its task under the most unpromising auspices.
11
Our situation has before been unpromising, and has changed for the better.
12
In the unpromising format of an Excel spreadsheet, a compelling picture emerged.
13
But he was still trying everywhere and under all circumstances however unpromising.
14
Yet have I known some unpromising tyros mature into very capable workmen.
15
Herder adjured Goethe not to take so unpromising a subject as Faust.
16
It was a most unpromising body, yet the Emperor's will stirred it.
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