1
As a general rule, there is no time so unpropitious for scenic effect as noonday.
2
Under circumstances so unpropitious, I had many misgivings, and the contemplation of our future prospect became a subject of painful anxiety.
3
He was sorry that fortune had been so unpropitious to him, as for him ever to have set eyes upon me!
4
An excursion had been planned for the day by the two boat clubs; but the weather was so unpropitious that it was abandoned.
5
Bitter experience had taught that never was moment so unpropitious for errands like the present as when that cheerful dirge filled the air.
6
The very Causses, stony, arid wildernesses, so unpropitious to human needs, so scantily populated in our own day, were evidently inhabited from remote antiquity.
7
Of all the conditions to which we are incident, there is none so unpropitious to whatever is ingenuous and honourable, as that of a slave.