Definition: 1. Having bad luck; caused by bad luck. 2. Not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune. 3. Not auspicious; boding ill. 4. Unsuitable or regrettable.
Use 'unfortunate' in a sentence:
1. She was always good with the unfortunate.
2. Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured.
3. I wonder whether the photographer asked the unfortunate victim if she was happy about the large-scale distribution of her disfigured image.
4. It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now.
5. It was unfortunate that you chucked out that remark.
6. The investigators need some details about the unfortunate accident.
7. It was unfortunate that she had rubbed out the message.
8. He was one of the dirtiest little unfortunate I ever saw.
9. Your best course of action is to forget about the whole unfortunate matter.
10. He was unfortunate to lose in the first round.
11. The result was unfortunate, to put it mildly.
12. Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late.
13. According to one great thinker, it is most unfortunate if we lose the ability to think differently.
14. The accessions of Arcadius and Honorius as emperors in the East and West respectively illustrate the unfortunate pattern of child heirs that had unfavorable effects for both empires.
15. Living in London, he felt, was an unfortunate necessity.
16. Will Remy be as unlucky as most of the unfortunate young?
17. Hungary and Poland have suffered before because of their unfortunate geopolitical position on the European map.
18. He's a natural with any kind of engine but he has an unfortunate yen for speed.
19. What some other clubs do is unfortunate, but we want no part of it.
20. Unpleasant memories have been piling in on her since that unfortunate meeting with her old enemy.
21. She has the unfortunate knack of always saying the wrong thing.
22. The poor unfortunate had starved to death.
23. There is a suggestion that ragwort honey might not be safe for humans, but there is no indication that this made the timing of the proliferation particularly unfortunate.
24. Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.
25. A beautiful girl has often an unfortunate life.
26. At the base of a mountain in Tanzania's Gregory Rift, Lake Natron burns bright red, surrounded by the remains of animals that were unfortunate enough to fall into the salty water.
27. In our human society, when a child's parents meet their unfortunate deaths for a certain reason or reasons, or its parents become too sick to look after it, this child will have to find a foster family, especially when it is a baby or at a very young age.
28. You're putting me in a most unfortunate position.
29. It was unfortunate that he couldn't speak English.
30. By an unfortunate oversight, full instructions do not come with the product.
31. It is indeed unfortunate!
32. The aim of establishing the organization is to help these unfortunate people.
33. It was an unfortunate choice of words.
34. It was unfortunate for Davey that his teacher did not take kindly to him.
35. The first to pass is Tootles, not the least brave but the most unfortunate of all that gallant band.
36. I sincerely pity these unfortunate beings.
37. Were they deplorable damsels molested by lascivious men? Or were they unfortunate young men dallied with by wanton women?
38. I am delighted for an unfortunate episode in Nigeria—Commonwealth relations will now come to an end and Nigeria is resuming its rightful place in the Commonwealth.
39. If I decide to be an artist or scholar, a bum or a farmer, will I be happier or more unfortunate?
40. It was unfortunate that she had erased the message.
41. She described the decision as 'unfortunate'.
42. Being an ugly girl is unfortunate.
43. It was an unfortunate accident.
44. It is unfortunate that your flight was cancelled.
45. We did not know how much danger we were truly in until we learned the truth behind the unfortunate death of music legend Michael Jackson.
46. She couldn't resist a dig at Dave after his unfortunate performance.
47. Every year we have fundraisers to raise money for unfortunate people.
48. They were unable to prove that the unfortunate lady had died as a direct result of his injection.
49. He was unfortunate to lose in the final round.
50. It is another unfortunate myth of our culture that older people are asexual.
51. Jirtle and Waterland set about to see if they could change the unfortunate genetic legacy of these little creatures.
52. Apparently he had been unfortunate enough to fall victim to a gang of thugs.
