This is, therefore, an unpropitious moment to pursue criminal justice reforms that sensible progressives might favor — e.g., concerning plea bargaining — but that opportunistic politicians can stigmatize as coddling criminals.

She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.

Some turned into entrepreneurs by seeking out unpropitious spaces with low rents to open pho and sandwich shops.

The stories about Ross come at an unpropitious time for the erstwhile banker.

But for Britain, it would be an unpropitious start to post-Brexit global outreach.