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ill-starred

adjective as in unhappy

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He chiefly divided his time between the House of Lords and sitting at home, lamenting over his own ill-starred existence.

The settlement no doubt was influenced by the imminence of a large expansion of policy—the ill-starred Irish expedition.

These ill-starred men, a prey to a sort of delirium, ran to their huts and gathered up the little that they possessed.

One of these was the house of Colette; and at his door our ill-starred John was presently beating for admittance.

They knew that it meant harder fighting than he supposed, and they dreaded a repetition of his earlier ill-starred risings.

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On this page you'll find 494 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-starred, such as: catastrophic, cursed, damned, disastrous, ill-fated, and ill-omened.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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