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Meanings of misfortune in anglès
An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.
Synonyms
Examples for "tribulation"
Examples for "tribulation"
1
She found the lady in charge of the institution in much tribulation.
2
The nations are those who deal with Israel through the great tribulation.
3
The crop is threshed in tribulation, but is grown mostly in sunshine.
4
And the leader of the party wore the wrinkled brow of tribulation.
5
Cars came and cars went, in heat and dust and some tribulation.
1
It was bad luck to think about good luck in a war.
2
Real serious about her job, especially with her run of bad luck.
3
Thais believe water washes away bad luck and helps usher in prosperity.
4
I thought I was surely in for seven years of bad luck.
5
His bad luck spelled the end of our piano lessons in London.
1
If they don't like our culture of freedom of expression, tough luck.
2
That was tough luck you had today. But there was no answer.
3
And if you don't do what you're told, tough luck, you're out.
4
If you later discover a great-aunt Nelly and 40 third cousins, tough luck.
5
I knew I'd be too hungover, but Dad basically told me tough luck.
1
But it is none the less an extraordinary piece of ill luck.
2
As ill luck would have it, the ice floes began driving inshore.
3
It was honestly got, and will bring no ill luck with it.
4
The poor man lost patience and complained bitterly of his ill luck.
5
I never for a moment supposed I should have such ill luck.
Usage of misfortune in anglès
1
Good teams with well-constructed squads overcome misfortune; weaker ones wallow in it.
2
The sons of Eli brought misfortune also upon the whole of Israel.
3
Thanks to his parents' watchfulness, Ted had no serious misfortune to peddle.
4
Nor would it lack the aspect of a particular, a personal misfortune.
5
His fellow workers in the bank he regarded as companions in misfortune.
6
You will find half a dozen companions in misfortune in the prison.
7
But the misfortune of Venice and Genoa was the opportunity of Portugal.
8
We'd had a great misfortune, he said, and it was nobody's fault.
9
The same misfortune now fell upon him in the autumn of 1788.
10
They were the men highest in power when misfortune overtook the realm.
11
What greater distress can there be than this and what greater misfortune?'
12
This discrepancy caused the greatness and the misfortune of the mighty Emperor.
13
To undergo it is a misfortune that at best is sometimes necessary.
14
Forster said: He recognises he is the author of his own misfortune.
15
The field was sinking under the burden of the ears of misfortune.
16
Again he had appeared in the hour of misfortune and bitter humiliation.
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Misfortune through the time
Misfortune across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare