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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "misfortunate" in a sentence

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    misfortunate


    1. Within a day or two it could not be determined that anything so misfortunate had occurred


    2. Nyla laughed and told him that they’d been misfortunate


    3. Coming home and settling among us, with a power of money, (some said eleven thousand pounds,) a short time before Mr Hirple departed this life, we all thought, on that event happening, it would be a very proper compliment to take Mr Hickery into the council, and accordingly we were so misfortunate as to do so; but I trow we soon had reason to repent our indiscretion, and none more than myself, who had first proposed him


    4. In short, I was haunted with the fancy, that Captain Armour was no other than the misfortunate lassie’s poor brother, who had in so pathetical a manner attended her and the magistrates to the scaffold; and, what was very strange, I was not the only one in the kirk who thought the same thing; for the resemblance, while Mr Pittle was praying, had been observed by many; and it was the subject of discourse in my shop on the Monday following, when the whole history of that most sorrowful concern was again brought to mind


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    Synonyms for "misfortunate"

    hapless miserable misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful poor wretched

    "misfortunate" definitions

    deserving or inciting pity