unlucky

IPA: ʌnɫˈʌki

Examples of "unlucky" in Sentences

On a certain unlucky night Ned met McNair at my room.
A character that’s vaguely unlucky is probably pretty bland.
"We were kind of unlucky, which is part of the game," Pereira said.
In fact, he appeared to suffer much more from what he termed my unlucky predicament than from his own mishaps.
She let me alone, however; until one unlucky day – I do not mean to call it unlucky, either – when we had, as usual, compositions to write, and the theme given out was "Ruins."
The news of Gerard's latest dalliance will come as another blow for Jennifer, who has been dogged by the tag unlucky in love since the break-up of her fairytale marriage to Brad Pitt, who went on to have three children and adopt two others in a high profile romance with Angelina Jolie.
- While both Friday(because Judas was thought to have been the 13th guest at the Last Supper) and 13(because it is an uneven number following the even number 12 widely considered beneficial) had independently been considered unlucky for centuries, the dark nature of Friday The 13th appears to have only originated in the West in the 19th century, possibly with Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini wherein the date is termed unlucky!