unlucky

Debutant was unlucky to be exposed to Jofra Archer in the first innings, then played his part in the sensational run chase.

Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

Once rid of her and her unlucky charm, he turned and strode off with purpose.

These included high-speed chariot races, armed gladiators who fought to the death, and the feeding of unlucky people to hungry lions.

Countless were the times she had read of people caught in frightening circumstances; when things seemed at their most dire, inevitably these unlucky people would be described as having “a shiver run down their spines.”