most ill-starred
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A Spock-like economic wonk used to the civilized stone halls of the New York Federal Reserve bank, Geithner was dragged in 2009 into one of the most ill-starred tenures of any modern US treasury Secretary.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013
But the most ill-starred horse of any sex this year was a filly, a most exceptionable filly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wilson campaign will probably be remembered as one of the most ill-starred presidential bids in history.
From Time Magazine Archive
He says that you have here the most ill-starred of all those who fought nine years before the city of King Priam and sailed home in the tenth year after having sacked it.
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel
If he had been endowed with second sight, he would have thought at least as rude a presage due to this last and most ill-starred of a whole generation of neophytes.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John
