unpropitious

[US]/ʌnprə'pɪʃəs/
[UK]/ˌʌnprəˈpɪʃəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. mbaya; mshwari.

Example Sentences

Thirteen is an unpropitious number.

Mnamo ya tatu na kumi na mbili ni namba ya kushindwa.

arrived at an unpropitious moment.

alibakia katika muda mrefu.

Real-world Examples

Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather.

Passepartout alikosa kwa mabaya sana kwa mwelekeo wa hali ya hewa.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

At this unpropitious moment her name was called.

Kwa muda huu mwelekeo, jina lake liliwapa.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

But, when all is said, it remained an unpropitious meeting.

Lakini, wakati wote waliwaona, mchezo huu ulibaki mwelekeo.

Source: Brideshead Revisited

Wilson was concerned with the rituals and beauty of ordinary black Americans as they They forged a culture in unpropitious circumstances.

Wilson alikumbuka kuhusu mazoezi na ujuzi wa wanaume wa mzungu wa kila siku kama waliweza kujenga michezo mwelekeo.

Source: The Economist Culture

The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north–east, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans–Atlantic steamer.

Hali ya bahari ilikuwa sio mwelekeo sana, mpira ulikuwa mchafu kusini kaskazini, mizigo yalikuwa yamekimbilia, na Henrietta alipiga mizigo kwa mawe kama kochi ya trans-Atlantic.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead of passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to Clym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.

Matokeo ya mchezo mwelekeo huo ulikuwa Eustacia, haja kushiria mchana na mimi ya mpira, alireturna kwa mafua ya mpira kwa mchana, ambapo alifika mchana mwa tatu zaidi kwa mpira.

Source: Returning Home

When first I knew him, Ryecroft had reached his fortieth year; for twenty years he had lived by the pen. He was a struggling man, beset by poverty and other circumstances very unpropitious to mental work.

Wakati mwingine nilikwahamia, Ryecroft alirekodi mji wa mpira; kwa miaka yote yote alijivunia kwa mpira. Alikuwa mwanamashambulizi, mpe mpira mwelekeo sana kwa kazi ya mpira.

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

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