Similar words: promising, compromising, uncompromising, missouri compromise, promise, promised, promises, compromise. Meaning: adj. unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment.
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1. In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
2. It was a rather unpromising start to the holiday.
3. The first attempt was unpromising.
4. Sales improved after an unpromising start .
5. Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.
6. Obviously, the outlook for peace was unpromising.
7. This book has an unpromising genesis.
8. At that time, the outlook for peace was unpromising.
9. Armed with these unpromising instructions he arrived and assumed his post on 31 August 1946.
10. This rather unpromising collection was augmented with grants from the duchy of Lancaster.
11. But beneath that unpromising cover is some very good reading.
12. Making Out sounds most unpromising - about a group of women workers in a clapped-out Manchester electronics factory.
13. He saw the bleak and unpromising moorland gain colour as the grasses grew and the flowers came.
14. He repeats to this unpromising man the promise made to Abraham and Isaac.
15. From such rigid, uncompromising and unpromising beginnings, Glass has created a sound language of great eloquence and diversity.
16. You always say that girls grow up definitely unpromising.
17. It also diverts computational cycles away from unpromising areas.
18. Avoid: Regret to loiter, bewilder to busy unpromising.
19. I'm just not satisfied with his unpromising manner.
20. All these unpromising physical properties serve to spur the spirit of innovation and experimentation I've described as the city's fundamental feature.
21. Tintin was born in this unpromising environment, in a weekly children's supplement , Le Petit Vingtieme.
22. Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
23. The authorities are attempting to build a technological society on unpromising foundations.
24. To make matters worse, the conduct of the Union generals in the lines to the west seemed equally unpromising.
25. It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising.
26. But Berg is a wily writer who has no trouble whipping up something sweet and satisfying from this unpromising set of circumstances.
27. Most of those planets are more massive than Saturn,(sentencedict.com) which makes them unpromising from a habitability standpoint—such giants tend to be gaseous bodies without a surface to walk on.
28. India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or NREGA, seemed unpromising from its inception.
29. It is a tribute to Mr Chandler's skill that he has fashioned a fascinating book out of such unpromising material.
30. With no use of perfume women are said to be unpromising, while with no touch of wine women must be unromantic .
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