OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 31608

unlucky

/ʌnˈlʌki/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desafortunado • infortunado
Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
"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…
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.…