luckless
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of luckless
Example Sentences
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"McLaren helped us today," he joked, referring to the opening lap crash in the sprint which saw Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg hit Piastri's McLaren and push him into the luckless Norris.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Being luckless in love is commonplace these days.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
It screamed watershed moment, the forever luckless Clippers outfoxing the eternally exalted Lakers for the services of not one, but two superstars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
Gathering routine genre elements — the masked predator, the luckless teenage victims, the cabin-in-the-woods setting — Nash subordinates them all to a mood of stunning serenity.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Leper, luckless in his last year as all the others, had been moved to a room lost in an old building off somewhere in the trees toward the gym.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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