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unpropitiously

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un·pro·pi·tious  (npr-pshs)
adj.
Unfavorable; inauspicious: arrived at an unpropitious moment.
unpro·pitious·ly adv.
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Adv.1.unpropitiously - in an inauspicious mannerunpropitiously - in an inauspicious manner; "he started his new job inauspiciously on Friday the 13th"
inauspiciously
auspiciously, propitiously - in an auspicious manner; "he started his new job auspiciously on his birthday"
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42) The sonnets portray a father profoundly unprepared for parenting: the first sonnet, perhaps the most intimate of the three, was not published until 1847, 13 years after Coleridge's death; "On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son," opens unpropitiously with "When they did greet me father, sudden awe / Weigh'd down my spirit" and goes on to catch Coleridge in "Th' unquiet silence of confused thought / And shapeless feelings" 0-2, 7-8).
"Work Without Hope": Anxiety and Embarrassment in Coleridge's Sonnets by ROBINSON, DANIEL / Studies in Romanticism
 
 
 
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