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Word entry · 7 letters

unlucky

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"Ill-fated"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ʌnˈlʌki/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cklnuuyStarts with UEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1U2N3L4U5C6K7Y

Definitions

  1. Having or bringing bad luck.

Word origin

From un- + lucky.

Used in a sentence

  • "So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
  • Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
  • By random chance alone, 99 times out of 100, the Lions should have won an NFL or NFC championship. Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.

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