unfortunate

It is unfortunate, too, in the sense that the Brewers are not some plucky underdog but the team that won the most games in the NL this year and last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The FIA acknowledges that this unfortunate human error had an impact on the performance of certain cars based on the timing of their run and their position around the lap.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But the film merely gestures to its own unfortunate place in history, without ever cementing it as a tragedy.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

To avoid an unfortunate fate, remember the saying “Turn around, don’t drown,” Redd said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"My dear sister has told me your tale, Sikander Aziz, and that of your brother. It's unfortunate that he discovered the flower of immortality. It will bring great suffering to the human world."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Now that I’ve seen the show – me, and the few thousand other unfortunates rubbernecking at this terrible accident – I’m here to assure you that this was never about us.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

The variety of goals that the Japanese striker scores is astonishing, but all of them have one thing in common - speed of thought that bewilders the unfortunates tasked with the job of marking him.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

As for so many unfortunates before me, it was the big city and all its glittering temptations that brought about my ruin.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020

These unfortunates are forced to live in hiding in the attics and basements of the sympathetic forgetful.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2020

The ferryman was Charon and those he would not admit to his boat were the unfortunates who had not been duly buried.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton