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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An instance of misfortune; a mishap.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An unfortunate adventure or hap; a mischance; ill luck.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an instance of misfortune

Etymologies

  1. Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English misaventure from Old French mesaventure, from mesavenir, to result in misfortune : mes-, badly; see mis-1 + avenir, to turn out (from Latin advenīre, to come to; see advent). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “This misadventure is already serving as really funny material for your writings!”

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  • “A 19-year-old man was fatally struck by a train in Pickering Sunday night in what police are describing as a "misadventure.”

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  • “But men are also killed by "misadventure" - by senseless drowning, falls, and by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

    Jablonski, Michael J.

  • “Therefore we removed the points gained by this type of "misadventure" - it includes a "look what you could have won" points tally.”

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  • “A review of the resolution vote count makes it clear that the misadventure was a Republican idea; the only opposition came from 20 Democrats and 1 Independent in the Senate.”

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  • “What I mean by that is either accident or, well, you know, therapeutic misadventure, which is more than just an accident.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2009

  • “The only misadventure occurs when a gold chain from my wife's bracelet becomes stuck in the tray table hinge.”

    Travel in Cambodia: November 2000 Trip

  • “Then the player said, "It's because Player X the one that the speaker blamed for the misadventure is a Jew.”

    And the sign said...

  • “A reposting on Matthew In Beirut, originally from winterson.com, depicting a Chinese bootleg DVD subtitling misadventure of Star Wars 3 thanks to Robin Edgerton.”

    Star Wars 3 Mistranslations

  • “George W. Bush has been accused, in the words of his former anti-terrorism czar, of doing "a terrible job" of fighting terrorism-distracted by what Richard Clarke called a misadventure in Iraq and a feckless defense of the homeland.”

    Bush Martial Art: Attack On Clarke Is 'Smear Rodeo'

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  • victoriapl an event that turned out badly; misfortune; mishap Dec 1, 2007

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