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Meanings of luckless in English

Having or bringing misfortune.

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Examples for "unlucky"
1
They're excellent principles except for one major problem, the unlucky Feature Thirteen.
Wired
2
He had turned in the unlucky direction; the crowd was still following.
The Nether World
3
Finished unlucky third in the Makybe Diva Stakes this time last year.
News.com.au
4
He took his several thousand people and started eliminating the unlucky ones.
Ringworld
5
In other words, the Olympics just happen to be the unlucky backdrop.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of luckless in English
1
Ten miles, however, that the luckless prisoner had not managed to negotiate.
New york: the novel
2
Really all nature seemed to be in league against the luckless colonists.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
3
John braced himself and yanked a luckless perch high in the air.
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
4
REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned.
The Devil's Dictionary
5
Friday was the luckless day of my own failure and broken heart.
Angling Sketches
6
This luckless piece of evidence undoubtedly influenced the jury to convict him.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office
7
The luckless Mr Liu was an employee of Chaoyang District Hygiene Office.
The Irish Times
8
That was wish enough for a luckless scarred bitch such as she.
The gunslinger
9
As for the luckless idols, they received more hard knocks than supplications.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
10
I had rather my aunt should have let my luckless love-affair alone.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
11
I seemed declimatized, denationalized, a luckless victim of fate and morbid fancy.
Across China on Foot
12
Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here.
The Odyssey of Homer
13
Chance had made him, chance which had been luckless for Jimmy Montague.
Winner Take All
14
The luckless Siebenburg's creditors, too, would now be added to his own.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04
15
He is more luckless than the rest of us-mayAllah help him!
Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
16
She had nothing else to say for a man she thought luckless!
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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