Meanings of very unpromising in anglès

I have fond memories of a comedy with a very unpromising pedigree.

The morning was very unpromising, the rain descended in a dull persistent downpour.

He's a very specific offshoot of a very unpromising part of the internet.

The emperor's affairs at this juncture wore a very unpromising aspect.

The sky seems very unpromising, and is clouded all over.

Great open leads intersected the floes at all angles, and it all looked very unpromising.

Out of this very unpromising beginning there arose a kind of friendship between the two men.

A very unpromising window Daisy considered it.

There is also a mountain range along this river, and the surrounding country seems to be very unpromising.

Collection very unpromising by macroscopy, but by microscopy showed many spores, mature specimens of Gemiasma rubra and verdans.

The weather, however, was very unpromising in the morning, being thick and foggy and apparently preparing for a storm.

Kee looks to Theo for help - a very unpromising hero, who is hardly less scared than she is.

It is by examining very bare, very dull, very unpromising things, that modern science has come to be what it is.

To the East and North-East spinifex and low ranges for fifteen miles, when the view was intercepted by spinifex rises-altogethervery unpromising.

To go forward looks very unpromising, and to retreat we have quite seventy miles with scarcely any water and no feed at all.

Moreover, the crops in the south looked generally very unpromising from the beginning, which naturally reduced the value falling to the lot of the laborer.