luckless
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"McLaren helped us today," he joked, referring to the opening lap crash in the sprint which saw Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg hit Piastri's McLaren and push him into the luckless Norris.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Being luckless in love is commonplace these days.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
Co-written by Gilliam and Michael Palin, with appearances by Palin as a luckless dweeb through the ages and John Cleese as a posh Robin Hood, “Time Bandits,” the film, was very much a Python work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
After the luckless Wood repeatedly passed the edge, it was Woakes who got the crucial wicket of Hodge in an excellent spell late in the day.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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