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unlucky English

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What does unlucky mean?

unlucky

having or bringing misfortune Friday the 13th is an unlucky date (= doomed, ill-fated, ill-starred) marked by or promising bad fortune their business venture was doomed from the start an ill-fated business venture an ill-starred romance the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons — W.H.Prescott

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Examples unlucky examples

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Simple sentences

It is said that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
Thirteen is definitely not an unlucky number, at least not for us.
What an unlucky boy I am!
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
Some people say thirteen is an unlucky number.
I'm so unlucky!
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
No one knew what the alarm signaled when it sounded that afternoon, but, with the exception of those few unlucky enough to have been so engrossed in their work as to not notice it, everyone made it out of the building alive.
We're unlucky.
How unlucky I am!
He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.
I really am unlucky!
I wonder why some people think black cats are unlucky.

Movie subtitles

It was not the only time that Sofren was unlucky.
The thieves' craft approaches unlucky Saturn -!
That's an unlucky number.
Some people are born unlucky.
This is an unlucky house.
Only, I warn you, lucky in love, unlucky at cards.
That also means lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
I've just been unlucky.
We were just unlucky.
In case I'm unlucky and you get through. I want you to take back a message to a Mr. Callendar at the Foreign Office in Whitehall.
Oh! Oh! It's very unlucky!
I'm unlucky with cats here.
How unlucky?
I'd rather be unlucky.
I knew this was going to be an unlucky day when I woke up.
I feel unlucky being the thirteenth.
This ship's unlucky.
Was that unlucky?
Thirteen's liable to be unlucky for De Lautruc.
If I'm unlucky and you get through, take back a message. to Mr. Callendar at the Foreign Office.
Miss Charlotte, it's unlucky to see the bridegroom before the wedding.
Yeah. I'm unlucky with cats here.
The victim, kneeling, laid his head upon the block. fitted his neck into the small, hollowed-out space. designed to receive it, whereupon the ax descended. severing the head from the torso with one blow. or in unlucky cases, two.
You've been unlucky.
What I mean is that, according to the almanac, today is an unlucky day for moxibustion.
It's unlucky to be in bed with your shoes on, but I can't help it.
I haven't any behavior to justify. I've just been unlucky.
I'm unlucky.
Unlucky. - Oh.
Marrying on the half hour has been unlucky for me.
You're unlucky.
Who's the unlucky guy?
Mr. Johnson, you're unlucky.
You're just unlucky, Mr. Johnson.
You're just unlucky.
Jeff, we've been wrong a lot and unlucky a long time.

News and current affairs

The unlucky ones have to live longer.
Africa turns out to be especially unlucky, because it has a combination of high temperatures and the mosquitos that are likely to transmit the disease.
In the past, English fans - but they were not the only ones - took the war metaphor too far and acted more like invading armies on the continent of Europe, terrorizing towns unlucky enough to stage an England game.
If rich countries blame unlucky countries - claiming that they are somehow culturally or politically unfit to benefit from globalization - we will create not only deeper pockets of poverty but also deepening unrest.
History tends to be unkind to the unlucky, but historians also judge leaders in terms of the causes of their luck.
It may in fact be a particularly cruel form of inequality, as those who do not succeed cannot argue that they were unlucky or kept down by those in power.
This is not the case - at least not yet - in Europe, where the majority, according to the same survey, believes that poor people are ordinary people who have been unlucky.
MOSCOW - August is often an unlucky month in Russia, particularly President Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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