other words for unfortunate
- adverse
- damaging
- deplorable
- disastrous
- inappropriate
- lamentable
- regrettable
- untoward
- desperate
- doomed
- poor
- afflicted
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cursed
- destitute
- forsaken
- hapless
- hopeless
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in a bad way
- infelicitous
- inopportune
- jinxed
- luckless
- out of luck
- pained
- ruined
- ruinous
- shattered
- star-crossed
- stricken
- troubled
- unbecoming
- unfavorable
- unhappy
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- wretched
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Hansen says that vaccines have “an unfortunate history of not being safe,” but that the need for long-term safety studies needed to be balanced against the risks of the pandemic.
I thought about the unfortunate end of the “K” while reading in The Wall Street Journal that AT&T, once merely a phone company, wants to sells its advertising technology business, the unfortunately named Xandr.
While it’s obviously unfortunate when artists achieve greater success after death than when they were alive, that success is still something to be celebrated, Howard says.
Wherever you land on the gender spectrum, rocking a dress can be a freeing experience, and it’s unfortunate that the stigma deters people from enjoying it.
They’ve been hung up on — all kinds of things, which is really unfortunate because they’re working very, very hard and helping extra hours.
That’s why it’s unfortunate that this year’s format has to be virtual, and why one should hope that it won’t be the new normal.
It’s produced decades of finger-pointing over who should throw real money at the problem of aging wastewater infrastructure and unfortunate topography causing beach closures along the continental coast.
To those who have been unfortunate let me say frankly that they owe it to themselves.
Its clients were not always as interesting as the unfortunate Ingelburge.
Meanwhile the Professor was filled with scruples and remorse for the unfortunate step he had taken.
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