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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The case went before Carter, who also oversees a six-year-old case in which the city and county are accused of inadequately addressing homelessness.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of inadequately

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Eight of them were deemed to have been ruled wrongly by the on-field officials.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Starting next year, Illinois will have new safeguards in place to prevent parents from being wrongly accused of child abuse or neglect when their children visit a doctor or hospital emergency room for unexplained injuries or ailments.

— Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrongly

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During Tyler Cameron’s critiques, Derek Hough mistakenly called him Dylan.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2026
The driver and bus matron apparently bypassed the daycare location and mistakenly dropped Ka'Mylah somewhere in between, and the child navigated her way home on her own.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of mistakenly

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Parents of students at Sunset Park Elementary School are stunned following the arrest of a former teacher accused of inappropriately touching students and displaying pornographic images.

— Anna McAllister, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Rush was accused of behaving inappropriately toward actress Eryn Jean Norvill in a series of 2017 articles in The Daily Telegraph.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of inappropriately

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Authority officials, including chief executive Ian Choudri, improperly signed off on $680,500 worth of payments without verifying if the services were truly necessary, according to the OIG, in violation of state regulations.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
The appeal argues that determination is not supported by substantial evidence and that the city improperly excluded demolition of Red Rest from historical resource impact analysis.

— Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of improperly

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Progress toward that goal faltered in 2023 when the state learned that its proposal to tap federal funds for a study on the Idaho-Utah route had been incorrectly submitted.

— Rose Evans September 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026
Matt Donohue, the video assistant referee (VAR) who oversaw the process which incorrectly allowed Erling Haaland’s goal in the Manchester derby, has not been selected to officiate in the Premier League this coming weekend.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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