Sample Sentences forpropitious (editor-reviewed)
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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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The spring inspections that year were propitious. (source)propitious = 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)
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The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, (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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...and wondering within myself whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, (source)
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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)standard 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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It was not a propitious start to the day.† (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)
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And do you Inow why the name is p-p-propitious for our endeavor?† (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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Ever since the day of William's house-raising, when the neighbors had gathered together and, working from dawn to sunset, had raised a fine imposing frame and nailed the sturdy new clapboards in place, Kit had known that William was only waiting a propitious time to speak.† (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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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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