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misfortune

[mis-fawr-chuhn]

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noun

adverse fortune; bad luck.

an instance of this; mischance; mishap.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English. See mis-¹, fortune

Synonyms
2. accident; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; reverse; blow. See affliction.

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What these ancient tragedies enact over and over again is not misfortune outside a character's control.

Then there were the musicians, dancers, and sculptors who had the misfortune of being ensnared on a college campus.

To lose a cabinet appointee may be regarded as a misfortune.

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What these ancient tragedies enact over and over again is not misfortune outside a character's control.

Then there were the musicians, dancers, and sculptors who had the misfortune of being ensnared on a college campus.

To lose a cabinet appointee may be regarded as a misfortune.

But each one has the power to bring good luckor misfortune.

So in our culture it is far more acceptable to laugh at your own or others' misfortune.

Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence.

It is the land where misfortune and opportunities are constantly intersecting.

It is the misfortune of many persons that they are born too late.

And the slings and arrows of outraged misfortune will no doubt fly and land in heaps.

The misfortune marked him for life and fed into his scientific thinking.

As a result, suspected witches often become scapegoats for misfortune and other problems such as failed crops or village feuds.

And he has the additional misfortune of inevitabably remaining so.

It seems to be an evil thing to do, to profit from another family's misfortune.

I've had the misfortune of having been there several times.

Ever since, the ghost is supposed to have brought misfortune upon an arrogant establishment.

But they have the misfortune to not be on the top of the food chain.

Im guessing there is a sinister plot to make money off the misfortune of others.

The first time it involved a dear, long-term friend whose misfortune it is to be bipolar.

One state has the great misfortune to belong to both troubled groups.

The oil spill had the disastrous misfortune of happening at the beginning of the fishing season.

It has never had the misfortune to be stuck in an organisation stronger than itself.

Even the queen recently visited an infected farm in a sign of sympathy for the scale of personal and business misfortune.

But lately the misfortune has mostly been the hackers' own.

Misfortune this year with drinking death of a student in a hazing incident.

He had the misfortune to be born on the wrong side of a line that now divides the world:.

And my grandmother had the misfortune to outlive her only two children-my father and aunt-by almost half a century.

We know this, and that it is entirely their misfortune if.

Fiske says witchcraft is popular in part because it offers a way for people to explain suffering and misfortune in their lives.

Zhou, committed their crimes before the latest crackdown began but had the misfortune of being convicted afterward.

Australia has the misfortune in terms of its public image of being one of the world's high-carbon economies.

Thomas came by his name through his father's misfortune.

They are better at controlling their emotions, better at accepting misfortune and less prone to anger.

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misfortune (mɪsˈfɔːtʃən)

—n
1.	evil fortune; bad luck
2.	an unfortunate or disastrous event; calamity

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misfortune

c.1500, from mis- (1) + fortune. Related: Misfortunate.

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