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    unfortunate example sentences

    unfortunate


    1. ‘How exactly is my client linked to this unfortunate incident?’ Mr Merrett asked as I do as suggested, draping my jacket over the back of the chair


    2. It's just an unfortunate circumstance


    3. It's way more than some unfortunate circumstance


    4. Nothing in her experience to date had ever taken her to a place like this, although various unfortunate incidents during her working life had resulted in similar stays in the healing facilities on Errd


    5. of oratory, storytelling at the Storymoja Hay Festival, where he was caught up in a tragedy and unfortunate crossfire that lead to his passing


    6. proud daddy) of one of the unfortunate ones


    7. ” This is the unfortunate fate of a “David


    8. Next to me stood another American lady wearing a large pair of glasses with unusually thick funky lenses all supported by an unfortunate growth on the side of her nose


    9. She felt that she finally had something to offer to these discussions, basing her opinions on her direct experience with these poor unfortunate people


    10. It is unfortunate that the metaphor of the mistress was used

    11. "Well, um, yes, but that would be another unfortunate metaphor


    12. She pressed him to tell her everything, which he did, including the part where the poor unfortunate man had promised to remember them if they ever needed help


    13. When, one year, the rhubarb wilted and turned yellow at the stem, only those poor, unfortunate rhubarb plants were ever mentioned again


    14. ‘I know,’ She laughed, ‘But he has other assets which make up for this unfortunate tendency


    15. ‘No problems with the pregnancy, I see, but an unfortunate outcome


    16. having to pay the doctor’s bills for all of Karen’s unfortunate


    17. with these poor unfortunate people


    18. poor unfortunate from the heavy swell and from a wind that


    19. including the part where the poor unfortunate man had promised to


    20. and turned yellow at the stem, only those poor, unfortunate rhubarb

    21. watch one poor unfortunate after another being ridiculed by the


    22. It is unfortunate that this is used criminally (through criminal


    23. frankly, rather unfortunate things tend to happen when it is not


    24. He watches the minor fracas at the hospital entrance from the edge of the car park, and once he is sure that the poor unfortunate soul who sparked off the flash bulbs has gone for good, he follows the signs to the main enquiries desk in Out Patients


    25. I confessed my regrets and made known I had only used what persuasions any one in my own place might have used and as consolation left him with the trophy of that unfortunate encounter---a rather well designed and cared for tradesman's folding knife of about half a foot in length


    26. brief nod towards the unfortunate woman


    27. It is unfortunate that I have to speak to you personally, I hope you will listen carefully to what I have to say


    28. An unfortunate number of coincidences must have come into play to bring


    29. One unfortunate consequence of the EU has been to try to blend


    30. "Ah, too few! Too few! How very unfortunate, Watson! However, such as they are you can put them in your watch pocket

    31. One of the unfortunate consequences of so much


    32. The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland


    33. It is unfortunate that Alan has become something of a keybearer in these events right now


    34. As a philosopher I can argue that these unfortunate persons act the way nature intends them to act


    35. In those unfortunate countries, indeed, where men are continually afraid of the violence of their superiors, they frequently bury or conceal a great part of their stock, in order to have it always at hand to carry with them to some place of safety, in case of their being threatened with any of those disasters to which they consider themselves at all times exposed


    36. “But sis, so unfortunate, that we have to meet tomorrow again,


    37. This expedient was no other than the well known shift of drawing and redrawing; the shift to which unfortunate traders have sometimes recourse, when they are upon the brink of bankruptcy


    38. as a quick mind would, that due to the unfortunate events of the


    39. Few, therefore, of those who have once been so unfortunate as to launch out too far into this sort of expense, have afterwards the courage to reform, till ruin and bankruptcy oblige them


    40. Think of the unfortunate Tireseas, who only chanced to see her

    41. unfortunate news of what would ultimately happen to those who reject the


    42. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries


    43. His bad moods were ugly and she felt sorry for anyone unfortunate enough to encounter him when he was like that


    44. This had been an unfortunate detour


    45. He looked at the physician and said in a more level tone, “Sir, I have just heard that he met with an unfortunate accident


    46. Of course this was hardly an appeal for unfortunate circumstances to arrive


    47. The unfortunate wretches accused of this latter crime were not more innocent of the misfortunes imputed to them, than those who have been accused of the former


    48. In consequence of this mistake of Columbus, the name of the Indies has stuck to those unfortunate countries ever since; and when it was at last clearly discovered that the new were altogether different from the old Indies, the former were called the West, in contradistinction to the latter, which were called the East Indies


    49. And the unfortunate nature of it


    50. In ever country where the unfortunate law of slavery is established, the magistrate, when he protects the slave, intermeddles in some measure in the management of the private property of the master ; and, in a free country, where the master is, perhaps, either a member of the colony assembly, or an elector of such a member, he dares not do this but with the greatest caution and circumspection












































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    Synonyms for "unfortunate"

    unfortunate unfortunate person inauspicious unsuccessful luckless hapless star-crossed unhappy ill-starred infelicitous awkward graceless lamentable woeful grievous distressing dire calamitous sad

    "unfortunate" definitions

    a person who suffers misfortune


    not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune


    not auspicious; boding ill


    unsuitable or regrettable