luckless
adjective
having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously.
lucklessly
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a word derived from
luckless.
Example Sentences
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Yet for months afterward, he drifted about Los Angeles lucklessly, alternately sleeping in his car or on Mr. Cretton’s couch, as all of his auditions led to naught.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
Just before Dday, Janet mans an ack-ack gun and lucklessly brings down a party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore."
From Time Magazine Archive
This at the time flustered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had lucklessly declared that Britain's frontier was upon the Rhine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because Euterpe did not preside when I was lucklessly ushered into this dancing gilt bubble that we call the world, were all good gifts denied me?
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
