Tommy supposed it might have something to do with Lent; Lent often affected one's spirits unfavourably.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
There were many things about himself to which he never alluded, but he gave the impression that in strict justice he ought to allude to them and very unfavourably, since he had been so badly treated by the other parties.
"Command"
William McFee
He considered that it compared unfavourably with 'Adam Bede,' a novel he genuinely admired, all but the marriage of Adam with Dinah Morris, which, he said, shocked his feelings, not having any conception that the taste of the novel-reading public demands a happy ending, whatever may have been the previous course of the three volumes.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind