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Unfortunate

adjective

Not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune. "An unfortunate decision" , "Unfortunate investments" , "An unfortunate night for all concerned"

Not auspicious; boding ill. Synonym: inauspicious.

Unsuitable or regrettable. "An unfortunate speech"

noun

A person who suffers misfortune. Synonym: unfortunate person.

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"Unfortunate" Quotes from Famous Books

... his pursuit of the white boy, and the unfortunate mishap that brought down his pony and prevented him from bringing a white captive ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... after all. The mental qualities which cause him to be less easily satisfied than others, came to him in the same way as his bodily qualities; and even if the result to which his mental training leads him is as unfortunate as some suppose, that training is not strictly speaking so heinously sinful that nothing short of the eternal reprobation meted out to him by earthly judges can satisfy divine justice. So that it may be thought not a wholly unpardonable sin to speak of a sign ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

... "That's unfortunate," said Farmer Oak, contemplating a crack in the stone floor with sorrow. "I'm only an every-day sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer ... Well, there's no use in my waiting, for that was all I came about: so I'll take ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... (60 degrees in the water); a cloudless sky. Mr. Hodgson and Charley, whom I had sent to seek John and Caleb, returned to the camp with a kangaroo. I sent them immediately off again, with Mr. Roper, to find the two unfortunate people, whose absence gave me the greatest anxiety. Mr. Roper and Mr. Gilbert had brought one pigeon and one duck, as a day's sport; which, with the kangaroo, gave us a good and desirable supper of animal food. During the evening and the night, a short bellowing noise ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... the underlying threads will it be made clear why the old Indian, Galvez, is secretly paid to keep green the grave of President Miraflores by one who never saw that unfortunate statesman in life or in death, and why that one was wont to walk in the twilight, casting from a distance looks of gentle sadness ...

— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

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