Synonyms

1. bad luck

Sentence Examples

1. And if your misfortune should prove to be one of those that refuse admission to any sort of consolation, it was my purpose to join you in lamenting and mourning over it, so far as I could for it is still some comfort in misfortune to find one who can feel for it.
2. He knelt to check on one of the two guards who had the misfortune of being behind the gates when he had burst through.
3. To my misfortune I yielded to it, showing her to him one night by the light of a taper at a window where we used to talk to one another.
4. Mya had fared well from the misfortune of the common man.
5. My good wishes followed it to the earth, but of course, I had no hope that either cat or kittens would ever live to tell the tale of their misfortune.
6. That is the body of Chrysostom, who was unrivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phœnix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay without vulgarity, and, in short, first in all that constitutes goodness and second to none in all that makes up misfortune.
7. He bore his misfortune with his habitual tranquillity.
8. As she appeared to him in her dressing-gown, she drove all the beauties he had seen until then out of his recollection speech failed him, his head turned, he was spell-bound, and in the end love-smitten, as you will see in the course of the story of my misfortune and to inflame still further his passion, which he hid from me and revealed to Heaven alone, it so happened that one day he found a note of hers entreating me to demand her of her father in marriage, so delicate, so modest, and so tender, that on reading it he told me that in Luscinda alone were combined all the charms of beauty and understanding that were distributed among all the other women in the world.
9. I dreaded lest the continued pressure of misfortune had, at length, fairly unsettled the reason of my friend.