Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by misadventure; unfortunate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unfortunate.
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- adjective obsolete
unfortunate
Etymologies
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Examples
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I recall president Clinton being caught in not one but a multitude of misadventurous acts of infidelity and questionable fraudulent acts.
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It is almost always cheaper for the pilot to disclose the misadventurous delivery of a round than to buy the round.
Awwwwwwkward. CC 2009
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We found a few Homeric moments along the way, including the whole notion of the misadventurous quest to Jefferson to bury Addie, the mother.
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This outburst occupies less than a page near the end of A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, his 350-page account of the whole misadventurous adventure.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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This outburst occupies less than a page near the end of A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, his 350-page account of the whole misadventurous adventure.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He was nevertheless, quoth Panurge, so unfortunately misadventurous in the lot of his own destiny, that Juno thrust out both his eyes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thus went along this poor choleric wretch, who, passing the water at Port-Huaulx, and relating his misadventurous disasters, was foretold by an old
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was nevertheless, quoth Panurge, so unfortunately misadventurous in the lot of his own destiny, that Juno thrust out both his eyes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thus went along this poor choleric wretch, who, passing the water at Port-Huaulx, and relating his misadventurous disasters, was foretold by an old
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The gros sou, the penny-piece, if you please, stimulates their zeal; but with misadventurous results!
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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