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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" Antonym: fortunate.

Not auspicious; boding ill. Synonym: inauspicious. Antonym: auspicious.

Unsuitable or regrettable. "An unfortunate speech"

noun

A person who suffers misfortune. Synonym: unfortunate person.

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"Unfortunate" Quotes from Famous Books

... may arise from an unfortunate mistake made at a Jazz Competition held in London last week. It appears that the prize was awarded to a lady suffering from hysteria who ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various

... and produced a line that said 'O fortunate Rome, when I was consul!' This was not only conceited of him but unfortunately the line contained a rime and this rime brought down an avalanche of ridicule on his head. 'O fortunatam natam me consule Romam' was this unfortunate line. Rime was probably first adopted by the monks in their medieval Latin hymns and was used by the Troubadours and early Italian poets when they began to write in the vulgar tongue. Dante uses it in his canzoni and sonnets and ballads, as well of course as in his great ...

— The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' • H. B. Cotterill

... in the halls of justice, in the face of a vast technical equipment for combating mendacity, is ten times more obvious in freer fields. Any man who is so unfortunate as to have a serious controversy with a woman, say in the departments of finance, theology or amour, must inevitably carry away from it a sense of having passed through a dangerous and almost gruesome experience. Women not only bite in the clinches; they bite even in open ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... ANOTHER unfortunate result for Jews from the present war will be the decreased stream of emigration from Russia and Galicia to this country, so that the escape from the House of Bondage would be still more limited. Many will be so impoverished by the war that they will not be able to afford the minimum sum needed for ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

... with coveting the regency (shikken), was put to death with his second son and all his retainers. Yet again, three years subsequently to this latter tragedy, Yoshimi, a scion of Yoritomo's brother, the unfortunate Yoshinori, fell a victim to accusations of treachery, and it needed no great insight to appreciate that the Bakufu was becoming a house ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

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