UNPROMISINGLY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

unpromisingly

adverb

as in insufficiently

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Like Alito’s paisanes, my Mexican family was also demonized for supposedly being insufficiently American and posing a threat to national unity.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
At times, some groups may feel overlooked or insufficiently welcomed, reminding us that inclusion is a value that must continually be expanded and reaffirmed.

— Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of insufficiently

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Undermanned in the middle and inadequately equipped on the back end, Holland, a septuagenarian with four Stanley Cup rings, will have to earn every word of his reputation this summer.

— Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 28 June 2026
As medetomidine spreads across the country, jails that are still inadequately prepared to treat opioid withdrawal alone could face an onslaught of severe cases.

— Hannah Harris Green, STAT, 26 June 2026

Definition of inadequately

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Flock’s overreach is already so vast that, in Feder’s case, he was warned to drive straight home and not cross into the neighboring towns — where their own Flock cameras would wrongly flag his car and sic the cops on him, too.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 July 2026
McCoy is not the only arrestee to have died in custody in recent years while wrongly held by the Sheriff’s Office.

— Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Definition of wrongly

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Owens has noted that many people, including Pasadena natives, mistakenly point to Armand Hammer’s former estate on the same street, which burned down in 2005, as the Batman house.

— David Hochman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Perhaps only one runner would have been on base — Tatis, via a pitch off his backside — but Cabrera mistakenly threw to second after looking Tatis back to second on Merrill’s tapper back to the mound.

— Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026

Definition of mistakenly

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The governor’s office inappropriately used $421,822 meant for their own office to subsidize other agencies.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
Vought’s moves also raise the risk of corruption and outside groups inappropriately influencing funding decisions.

— Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 27 June 2026

Definition of inappropriately

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The most recent controversy came in January, when the county paid $135,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused Kramer of improperly slashing a property’s value by millions of dollars — then retaliating against the employee who raised alarms about it.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
The new complaint accused Bojangles of failing to adequately secure employee data, misleading workers about how safe its systems were and improperly benefiting by skimping on cybersecurity.

— Chase Jordan July 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026

Definition of improperly

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In 2021, then-F1 race director Michael Masi incorrectly applied the rules around such a situation and did not let all lapped runners overtake.

— Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 7 July 2026
Mistakes to Avoid While baking soda is an effective way to kill stubborn garden weeds, using this technique incorrectly can hurt your garden instead of help it.

— Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026

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