mis-fortune

Look at happiness research from another angle: it is shown we are unhappy when we blame others for our mis-fortune.

Happiness Research: Get Used to It, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Have no worries about RCIA, It will be solid if you have the mis-fortune of having me as teacher/evil dictator who will teach everything Catholic that some places forget.

wyd Dymphna 2008

I'm just curious and not intending to be insulting or to demean in any way the trauma experienced by those who had the mis-fortune to be caught up in the bombings.

Lurgy Rachel 2006

Thus poore Calandrino miserably misused and beaten, went home to Florence with his Wife, scoulded and raild at all the way, beside his other molestations (day and night) afterward: his Companions, Phillippo and Nicholetta, making themselves merry at his mis-fortune.

The Decameron 2004

Now trust me Sir, answered Melisso, I am a native of Laiazzo, and as you are vexed with one great mis-fortune, even so am I offended with another.

The Decameron 2004

Johnson went to Richmond and there, chafing at his slow mending, made the best of mis-fortune.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Johnson went to Richmond and there, chafing at his slow mending, made the best of mis-fortune.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Johnson went to Richmond and there, chafing at his slow mending, made the best of mis-fortune.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

This expence he was enabled to support by a present from Mr. Nash of Bath, who, upon hearing of his late mis-fortune, sent him five guineas.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

I suspect that even if someone dies or is seriously injured, as a result of Lindsay's drinking/pill popping, that they will find a way to place all of the blame on the unfortunate soul who had the mis-fortune to have crossed their daughter's path.

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