unpropitious

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Set in New York in the unpropitious years from 2007 to 2009, this moving, often funny novel revolves around Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant who finds a job driving for a bigwig at Lehmann Brothers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2016

It requires driving under four overpasses on a tortuous path to an unpropitious ’hood and ends on a street corner where you exchange dough for pizza dough.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2016

Scenes of Evie during this unpropitious summer are threaded, occasionally, with scenes of Evie today, in late middle age.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2016

It’s an unpropitious time for these unsavory details of committee malfeasance to emerge, what with the House imploding as it is.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2015

Nothing would be moving, for the day was unpropitious and instincts were blurred and not to be trusted.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams