UNPROMISINGLY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

unpromisingly

adverb

as in insufficiently

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Or… 2) Miami is insufficiently impressed and spends its likely very high 2027 first-round draft pick on a QB with the clear intent for the rookie to soon replace Willis.

— Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
Especially exciting to him was the German student movement, which combined support for liberation across the non-Western world with attacks on what the students considered the suffocating (and still insufficiently de-Nazified) Federal Republic.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of insufficiently

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Beatty has challenged the board’s plan to close the Kennedy Center for two years, arguing its initial decision was rushed and inadequately considered.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
In the last decade and a half, a carrousel of feuding political factions took turns governing, all inadequately.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of inadequately

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But the hostility toward Jews was evident during the Dreyfus affair, which saw Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026
Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrongly

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The time in which Cardoso allegedly registered to vote despite not meeting citizenship requirements is the same time period in which about 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly registered to vote through New Jersey’s automatic voter registration system.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2026
The fatal shooting by police responding to a report of a possible break-in distinguishes Pysher’s death from several other instances in which residents have shot people who mistakenly showed up at their homes.

— Holly Ramer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of mistakenly

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The complaint says church officials knew Marroquin was communicating inappropriately with underage girls.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Officials from both governments have traded barbs in recent weeks over whether China has been inappropriately stealing AI trade secrets.

— Kevin Collier, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of inappropriately

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But advocates of more protective parenting argue free-range parenting increases the risk children encounter danger and, in some cases, can result in neglect when children are improperly supervised.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using data improperly, Google claimed attackers tried to clone Gemini, and Anthropic suggested that Alibaba should be criminally punished for allegedly launching the largest-ever cloning attack on Claude.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of improperly

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Similarly, the panel deemed Nottingham Forest were incorrectly awarded a penalty in their 2-2 draw with Liverpool for an Alisson challenge on Neco Williams.

— Dan Kilpatrick, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Their teachers would suggest that all negative experiences are inherently growth opportunities, or that perhaps the person was meditating incorrectly.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

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