The petition was received by the Regent with a most unpropitious aspect.

It would be most unpropitious if she guessed much about his magic.

An eight-point drop in support in the most unpropitious political circumstances should not defeat the treaty.

Skill and good management, however, can improve any soil, and coax luxuriant crops from the most unpropitious.

Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill.

At this time the weather was most unpropitious, and rendered training in any shape or form out of the question.

Also, Sanders very soon learned that it was a most unpropitious time for the setting afloat of a new enterprise.

It was a most unpropitious-looking evening, and I began to feel the painful stiffness arising from prolonged fatigue in saturated clothes.

The times were most unpropitious, the country being just on the eve of a great financial panic when immense properties were crumbling to pittances.

The period of his arrival in Spain, being the latter part of 1484, would seem to have been the most unpropitious possible to his design.