misfortune

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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Undeterred by his misfortune two holes earlier, Bridgeman began the back nine with a birdie at No. 10 and an eagle at No. 11 to give himself a four-shot cushion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

This is her first medal since Pyeongchang 2018 and follows her Beijing 2022 misfortune, and it matches the medal she won as a teenager at Sochi 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The hard fact is that genius isn’t reserved for the worthy any more than misfortune is reserved for the wicked.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Another story about Pandora is that the source of all misfortune was not her wicked nature, but only her curiosity.

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