<adj.all> 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
Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a. 1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort.
2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden.
3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
In 1987, he was unlucky enough to get shot in the leg during a horrendous massacre at a polling-station in Haiti.
Nordic myth has it that number 13 first became unlucky a few thousand years ago when, at a banquet of a dozen benevolent gods, an uninvited bad god intruded and started a fight that killed the most popular god.
But bloodshed since that killing has been limited to unlucky bystanders in the past two weeks.
They've been unlucky in love and had their problems with booze, but George Peppard and Ernest Hemingway found each other, and now Peppard is bringing Hemingway back home.
The unlucky victim might even be IMF leader Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), publicity promises.
Today, the sick, the destitute and the homeless, the unlucky and the careless get kicked from one level of government to the next, as down the stairs of a flophouse.
In one respect, British Airways was unlucky.
Mr John Major is cursed by a worse affliction. He is unlucky.
Perhaps the biggest loser yesterday was the unlucky squirrel that climbed into the main electric power line in Trumbull, Conn., with a piece of aluminum foil.
There were the unlucky ones.
At Microcom Inc., the chairman and president has been so unlucky in timing his stock sales that it has become a bit of a joke within the company, said Jake Fennessy, the company's director of treasury operations.
It's not a situation nobody else has been in; he happened to be the unlucky one." A Taiwanese fish broker who admitted arranging to smuggle 500 tons of illegally caught salmon into this country was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.
It was unlucky in being unable seriously to challenge Mr Rao's economic reforms - a key issue over the past 18 months.
Dead pets of no pedigree have fetched as much as $10,000, while a racehorse's demise at the hands of an incompetent or unlucky vet can mean $200,000 or more.