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unfortunate

[ uhn-fawr-chuh-nit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

suffering from bad luck:
an unfortunate person.
Synonyms: hapless, unsuccessful
unfavorable or inauspicious:
an unfortunate beginning.
regrettable or deplorable:
an unfortunate remark.
marked by or inviting misfortune:
an unfortunate development.
lamentable; sad:
the unfortunate death of her parents.

unfortunate

/ ʌnˈfɔːtʃənɪt /

First recorded in 1520–30; un- ¹ + fortunate

And when two bros start quoting the show to her, the unfortunate line, "Say 'old woman's pussy!'"

The unfortunate reality is that race, gender, and economic status do matter when justice is meted out.

It makes it seem all the more unfortunate, that having finally achieved such understanding, most of those personnel are leaving.

How ironic and unfortunate that the critics tend to focus on one “bad” class or the other.

There is no doubt that some unfortunate reporter, tasked with working the weekend shift, would have looked into them.

The moment was an awkward one, and Cynthia wished madly that she had not been prompted to ask that unfortunate question.

She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.

Dressed in full uniform, amid cries of "Long live our King Joachim," the unfortunate man landed with twenty-six followers.

It was very unfortunate that the whole establishment stood in unaffected awe of the redoubted Mr Bellamy.

This selection was unfortunate; good strategist and organiser, he was not the man the Emperor required.

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