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luckless

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luck·less  (lkls)
adj.
Marked by, suffering, or promising lack of luck; unlucky. See Synonyms at unfortunate.
luckless [ˈlʌklɪs]
adj
having no luck; unlucky
lucklessly  adv
lucklessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.lucklessluckless - having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
unlucky
unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
luckless
adjective unlucky, unfortunate, unsuccessful, hapless, unhappy, disastrous, cursed, hopeless, jinxed, calamitous, ill-starred, star-crossed, unpropitious, ill-fated the luckless parent of an extremely difficult child
Translations
luckless [ˈlʌklɪs] ADJ → desdichado, desafortunado
luckless [ˈlʌkləs] adj
[person] → malchanceux/euse
[trip] → marqué(e) par la malchance
luckless
adj → glücklos; attempt also → erfolglos
luckless [ˈlʌklɪs] adj (liter) → sfortunato/a
luckless [ˈlʌklɪs] adj (liter) → sfortunato/a


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A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-citizens with the trunk of a small tree, and subsequently cleaned out the town.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
Apart from the one fundamental nastiness the luckless mouse succeeds in creating around it so many other nastinesses in the form of doubts and questions, adds to the one question so many unsettled questions that there inevitably works up around it a sort of fatal brew, a stinking mess, made up of its doubts, emotions, and of the contempt spat upon it by the direct men of action who stand solemnly about it as judges and arbitrators, laughing at it till their healthy sides ache.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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