Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a luckless manner; unfortunately; unsuccessfully.

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  • adverb In a luckless way.

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Examples

  • By midnight on Thursday, he had lost another mini-fortune at the tables, trying lucklessly to play his way out of catastrophe.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • It was the head of a predator on the crouch, and he was the prey trying lucklessly to make it to a mouse hole of one sort or another.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • By midnight on Thursday, he had lost another mini-fortune at the tables, trying lucklessly to play his way out of catastrophe.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • It informed him that a squadron of zotl needlecraft had lucklessly detected his timelag echo the moment the Rimstalkers propelled him into the center of the ring singularity.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • But Marishka's hand clasped his own, and lucklessly, he waited.

    The Secret Witness George Gibbs 1906

  • The Harbins had lucklessly urged Jane to join them.

    Jane Cable George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • "You've slept too little of late, Mrs. Plume," continued the doctor, lucklessly hitting the mark with a home shot instantly resented, for the lady was on her feet again.

    An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Charles King 1888

  • It formed part of a lucklessly projected History of German Literature, subsequent portions of which, the

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • She was a princess, yet she was a baby, and he has contrived, we let ourselves fancy, to interweave an intimation that she was a creature whom, in her teens, the lucklessly smitten -- even as he was prematurely -- must vainly sigh for.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • But, lucklessly -- the blast won't pose to the instrument! nor can the instrument be adjusted to the blast.

    The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 John Ruskin 1859

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