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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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
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

Definition of wrongly

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Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of its Claude models mistakenly gained access to the open internet during a cybersecurity exercise, marking the fourth time its models have done so.

— Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Another setback was an incident in which the company mistakenly used a Japanese drum for a promotion in China, sparking backlash and hurting sales.

— Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 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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