luckless

If they are going to match their achievement in Germany in 2006, that so called luckless streak is going to have to come to an end in Nelspruit.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

 But of course it's like those emblems of "luckless" people — it shows the carin betweenbeing on the road and flipping over (and over and over).

Sonoma Coast 2010

 Some copy writer in the park service waxed poetic and referred to the people who are pulled out to sea never to be seen again as "luckless" (or "hapless," I can't remember now), as if the sleeper wave were a particularly horrific agent of fate, which I guess it is.

Sonoma Coast 2010

  (Suddenly, I wonder if the word "luckless" was the outcome of a thesaurus search rather than a moment of inspiration.)  Moreover, if it's a matter of "hap" or "luck," why warn someone about what cannot be averted or foreseen?

Sonoma Coast 2010

I can easily imagine the story of "luckless" Carol trying to keep poor "Lucky" on the right side of the dirt.

HH Com 468 Miss Snark 2006

The "luckless" farmer simply did not _perceive_ the indications of wealth under his plodding feet; or, if he saw signs of oil, he did not realize that they _denoted_ the possibility of millions.

Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

And the subject of the script leads to the luckless director who had to stage it, Kenneth Branagh.

'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011

But neither is it so lightweight that you might be embarrassed to carry it onto a beach even here in New Jersey, the proud home of Boardwalk attractions such as the Shoot the Geek concession stand that lets you fire paintballs at a luckless teenager dressed like a terrorist.

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And the press would pile on, painting a picture of a luckless, incapacitated campaign, powerless to avoid its approaching doom.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film.

The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands The New York Public Library 2012