misfortune
Example Sentences
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Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.
Practical advice from one Charles Dickens in “Sketches by Boz”: “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
“In this matter, with respect, we are constrained to say the applicant is the author of his own misfortune,” said Justice Vernon Ong.
From Seattle Times
"They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune," said López Obrador, who noted that most of those killed in the fire were from Central America and some were from Venezuela.
From Salon
Survivors, many housed in temporary shelters, cried over their misfortune Monday.
From Seattle Times
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