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Sentence count:188+9Posted:2017-02-28Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: accidentcalamitycatastrophedifficultydisasterdistresshardshipmishapruintragedytroubleAntonym: fortuneSimilar words: fortuneopportuneimportuneinopportunefortune cookiefortunatefortunatelyunfortunateMeaning: [mɪs'fɔrtʃən /-'fɔː-]  n. 1. unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event 2. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. 
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61, Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
62, His few educated or moneyed followers came from among people rendered marginal by ethnicity or factional misfortune.
63, Moreover, the person responsible for inducing this state is likely to be held at least partially liable if misfortune does occur.
64, Given the climate, these places are vulnerable, and far too easily affected by the least human error or natural misfortune.
65, Once a shadowy misfortune families hid as if it were shameful, depression is becoming just another slice of the health-care business.
66, He was, without doubt, the most arrogant, self-opinionated man it had ever been her misfortune to meet.
67, It was undertaken generally by people who had experienced personal misfortune.
68, Such a community spirit is also reinforced through the shared misfortune of mining disasters.
69, Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce 
70, It is a contemporary tale of medical misfortune which paradoxically illustrates quite dramatically the remarkable achievements of modern medicine.
71, This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a woodchopper.
72, Misery and misfortune are not misery and misfortune alone but the rungs of a ladder up which man makes his ascent.
73, The casualties were far fewer, but the train did not suffer the extraordinary misfortune of striking a bridge.
74, Sufficient working capital must be available to meet the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune!
75, She said that babies born in a caul were born to great fame or great misfortune, certainly something special.
76, The deer by the creek had the misfortune to come to the roadside for an ill-judged second.
77, In the first world, misfortune and suffering were endemic and unavoidable.
78, Any serious misfortune can leave a victim searching for answers and explanations,[http://sentencedict.com/misfortune.html] but polio was peculiarly unyielding to accountability.
79, The last straw that breaks the camel's back is indeed the proximate cause of that misfortune.
80, This plan was dogged by misfortune and the loss of the plates on a trip to London was never rectified.
81, An Hour of Misfortune Simon stood by his bed looking out the window.
82, The couple have suffered a catalogue of misfortune in recent weeks.
83, Unlucky-looking people made them uneasy and even tempted some to assume the role of misfortune.
84, Ironically their misfortune may lead to a cure for others.
85, She always tried to put in an appearance at the funerals of patients who had the misfortune to die.
86, They all agree that it is, and that death and misfortune hover about whaling continually.
87, Misfortune was surmounted, and misfortune became too great a burden; virtuous reputations were earned, and scandalous stories were recounted.
88, It was impossible not to feel sympathy for the family's misfortune.
89, I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. Charles Dickens 
90, At the same time, it is not alone in the field: there are alternative mystical explanations of misfortune.
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