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• “adverse circumstances“
• “made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions“

Synonyms

• inauspicious not auspicious; contrary to your interests or welfare; presaging ill fortune
• untoward not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; contrary to your interests or welfare

• “adverse currents“
• “a contrary wind“

Synonyms

• contrary a relation of direct opposition; exact opposition; a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false ; very opposed in nature or character or purpose; of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; resistant to guidance or discipline; in an opposing direction