Thesaurus / misfortune
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Dryly self-deprecating, she considers herself an introvert who has the misfortune to live in a building with 270 other people.
“WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO IS DEAD OR ALIVE”: TRAPPED INSIDE AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY DURING THE PANDEMICBY AVA KOFMANNOVEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICAIf you’ve ever had the painful misfortune of losing valuable documents, photos, and information on your laptop due to a random crash or accident, then you know how important external hard drives are.
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES FOR EASY, RELIABLE BACKUPSPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMOCTOBER 9, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThen in 1959 it had the misfortune to pass close to Jupiter, which pushed it even closer.
THESE IMAGES EXPOSE THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDECOREY S. POWELLAUGUST 26, 2020NAUTILUSIt’s not ideal that Portland has the misfortune of playing its next game against the Dallas Mavericks, who have the most efficient offense in NBA history.
WITH A HEALTHY JUSUF NURKIĆ, THE TRAIL BLAZERS ARE ON THE CUSP OF THE PLAYOFFSJARED DUBINAUGUST 11, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTAstronauts there made unprecedented observations of Earth and the sun, and set new records for time spent in space — but many misfortunes befell the early NASA space station.
50 YEARS AGO, NASA PREPARED TO LAUNCH AMERICA’S FIRST SPACE STATIONMARIA TEMMINGJULY 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThis misfortune gave another opportunity to his detractors, and again the Emperor lent his authority to their false accusations.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONDuring the hurried crossing of the mountains of Tolosa the Marshal had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONIt is due to Alan to say that the misfortune of his wounded leg by no means cooled his courage.
THE NURSERY, JULY 1873, VOL. XIV. NO. 1VARIOUSIt would be a misfortune if the impression were created that preferment to the episcopal bench was confined to High Churchmen.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSAn Irish officer had the misfortune to be dreadfully wounded in one of the late battles in Holland.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO MISFORTUNE
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- alluvion
- bad luck
- bad news
- bad thing
- blow
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- contretemps
- crash
- culmination
- curtains
- debacle
- denouement
- desolation
- devastation
- disaster
- emergency
- end
- failure
- fatality
- fiasco
- finale
- grief
- hardship
- havoc
- ill
- infliction
- meltdown
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- mishap
- reverse
- scourge
- stroke
- termination
- the worst
- tragedy
- trial
- trouble
- upshot
- waterloo
- wreck
- accident
- advantage
- adventure
- bad luck
- break
- cast
- casualty
- coincidence
- contingency
- destination
- destiny
- doom
- even chance
- fluke
- fortuity
- fortune
- future
- gamble
- good luck
- hap
- haphazard
- happening
- hazard
- heads or tails
- hit
- in the cards
- kismet
- lot
- lottery
- luck out
- lucky break
- misfortune
- occurrence
- odds
- outcome
- peradventure
- peril
- providence
- risk
- stroke of luck
- throw of the dice
- toss-up
- turn of the cards
- way the cookie crumbles
- wheel of fortune
- adversity
- arduousness
- awkwardness
- barricade
- check
- complication
- crisis
- crux
- dead end
- deadlock
- deep water
- dilemma
- distress
- emergency
- exigency
- fix
- frustration
- hardship
- hazard
- hindrance
- hitch
- hot water
- impasse
- knot
- labor
- laboriousness
- mess
- misfortune
- muddle
- obstacle
- obstruction
- pain
- painfulness
- paradox
- perplexity
- pickle
- predicament
- quagmire
- quandary
- scrape
- snag
- stew
- strain
- strait
- strenuousness
- struggle
- stumbling block
- tribulation
- trouble
- bitter pill
- blind alley
- blow
- blunder
- bringdown
- bummer
- bust
- calamity
- defeat
- disaster
- discouragement
- downer
- downfall
- drag
- dud
- error
- failure
- false alarm
- faux pas
- fiasco
- fizzle
- flash in the pan
- impasse
- inefficacy
- lemon
- miscalculation
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mistake
- obstacle
- old one-two
- setback
- slip
- washout
- bitter pills
- blind alleys
- blows
- blunders
- bringdowns
- bummers
- busts
- calamities
- defeats
- disasters
- discouragements
- downers
- downfalls
- drags
- duds
- errors
- failures
- false alarms
- faux pas
- fiascoes
- fizzles
- flash in the pans
- impasses
- inefficacies
- lemons
- miscalculations
- mischances
- misfortunes
- mishaps
- mistakes
- obstacles
- old one-twos
- setbacks
- slips
- washouts
- act of God
- adversity
- affliction
- bad luck
- bad news
- bad thing
- bale
- bane
- blight
- blow
- bust
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- collapse
- collision
- crash
- debacle
- defeat
- depression
- emergency
- exigency
- failure
- fall
- fell stroke
- fiasco
- flood
- flop
- grief
- hard luck
- harm
- hazard
- holocaust
- hot water
- ill luck
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- reverse
- rock
- rough
- ruin
- ruination
- setback
- slip
- stroke
- the worst
- tragedy
- undoing
- upset
- washout
- woe
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