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It was a propitious time to graduate with a degree in petroleum engineering.propitious = good or favorable
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GLADSTONE, UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF "Chinese" Gordon in Egypt, was reported to have muttered irritably that his general might have chosen a more propitious time to die: (source)propitious = favorable
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The spring inspections that year were propitious. (source)
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Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion. (source)
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The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, (source)
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...and wondering within myself whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, (source)
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He clasped his two hands in front of his chest and said to Qin Shi Huang, "Oh Greatest, Most Honorable Emperor, this is the most propitious sign of them all!† (source)
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Those answers had been thrust upon him from such an unexpected source, and in such an unpropitious setting, it was more than he could make sense of at the moment.† (source)unpropitious = unfavorablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpropitious means not and reverses the meaning of propitious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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You will just have to wait until the propitious moment.† (source)
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At this unpropitious moment her name was called.† (source)
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Instead, wait until the hour is propitious.† (source)
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The revolution was left inside society, a part of that welter of ideological struggle which art and poetry find so unpropitious as soon as it begins to involve those "precious" axiomatic beliefs upon which culture thus far has had to rest.† (source)
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We went and stared at the wedding presents, until I acknowledged the propitious placement of the present from Owen and his father.† (source)
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He had been frank with himself—let alone with me—in the wild hope of arriving in that way at some effective refutation, and the stars had been ironically unpropitious.† (source)
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And do you Inow why the name is p-p-propitious for our endeavor?† (source)
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It was some time before he obtained any answer, and the reply, when made, was unpropitious.† (source)
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