noun
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evil fortune; bad luck
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an unfortunate or disastrous event; calamity
Related Words
See affliction.
Etymology
Origin of misfortune
Example Sentences
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To sum up their misfortune in a nutshell, Bradley was taken off at half-time after a knock for Isak.
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Australian Piastri, 24, needs some kind of misfortune to happen to his rivals if he is to win his first title.
From BBC
We are likely to leave “nursing a violent sense of misfortune.”
Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.
Practical advice from one Charles Dickens in “Sketches by Boz”: “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
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