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• Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?From the entry take pleasure
• Their pleasure was alloyed with misfortune.From the entry alloyed
• Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.From the entry drum
• The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip.From the entry prattler
• This remake injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we're told).2023 May 24, Wesley Morris, “'The Little Mermaid' Review: Disney's Renovations Are Only Skin Deep”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry screensavery
• My grandfather was something of a micawber, never letting setbacks or misfortune drag down his cheery disposition.2018, Joseph Piercy, 1000 Words to Expand Your Vocabulary. From the entry micawber
• The thing must be given freely or misfortune rebounds.” Ah, but Andrei had already bespelled the lass.2014, Maggie MacKeever, Vampire, Bespelled. From the entry bespell
• She wasn't the woman for me, she wasn't my happiness, she was my misfortune.2010, Iva-Marija Znaor, “Number Thirteen”, in The Sea of Bitterness: Amulet, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry aweless
• Have I right to call the mother of my children my misfortune?2010, Iva-Marija Znaor, “Number Thirteen”, in The Sea of Bitterness: Amulet, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry aweless
• Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.2009, Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers. From the entry misfall
• The bunyip here was considered to have a magical power over humans, causing them considerable misfortune.2007, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, page 387. From the entry bunyip
• The fools charge her with diabolical trafficking, believing her misfortune the result of divine misfavor!2001, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 wicked witch stories, page 537. From the entry misfavor
• When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean…. From the entry tonal
• This mournful melody from Queensland tells of the woes and misfortunes of early canecutters.1964, Favourite Australian Bush Songs, page 137. From the entry canecutter
• They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175. From the entry nat
• This paper was prepared for a large audience—if the audience is not here—“Ishkabibble”—their misfortune.1924, Transactions of the Kansas Engineering Society. From the entry ishkabibble
• He had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse and broke his arm at the elbow.[1924 May, “China Notes for February: Liao Chou”, in The Missionary Visitor, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143. From the entry Yushe
• These dully schematic yet sentimental misfortunes surround Van Gogh's “Sower”.2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The…. From the entry impasto
• That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa.2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don’t come any bigger”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry spitball
• And finally I thank my kin, who have seen past fortune and misfortune with the inconcussible evenness of love.2014, David van Dusen, The Space of Time, page xi. From the entry inconcussible
• Needy, venal and entirely unencumbered with self-knowledge or native wit, the Duchess is yet again the architect of her own misfortune.2011 March 9, Judith Woods, “The Royal Family: Put a royal sock in it, Sarah”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 04 Apr 2011. From the entry native wit
• It seems that his desire for me died around the same time he got wind of Harry's misfortunes.2010, Josie Brown, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, Downtown Press, →ISBN, page 286. From the entry lustmaking
• We were both flawed, obvious victims of physical misfortune.2009, Alice Munro, “Face”, in Too Much Happiness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 145. From the entry make common cause
• Folklorists claim that the superstitious belief that opening an umbrella indoors augurs misfortune has a more recent and utilitarian origin.1989, Charles Panati, “From Superstition”, in Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (Perennial Library), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry frangible
• "Are you ready to be a soldier of misfortune?"1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 138. From the entry soldier of misfortune
• Then another misfortune avalanched itself upon me, before even I had fully taken in the extent of the first.1930, Arthur Gask, chapter 11, in The Shadow of Larose. From the entry avalanche
• Oh, can misfortune come in hatefuller shape?1922, “The Persians”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 77. From the entry hatefuller
• But an over-stressed insistence on a discipled suffering may impose too much upon those who struggle with sickness, misfortune, guilt and bereavement.2018, David Fergusson, The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach, page 339. From the entry discipled
• Those lucky enough to have rooves over their heads did their bst to ignore the cries, turning a deaf ear to their brothers’ misfortune.2011, Curtis Jobling, “Beyond the Gates”, in Rage of Lions (Wereworld; 2), London: Puffin Books, →ISBN, part IV (The Storm from the…. From the entry roof over one's head
• He was forced to digest the fact that a career as a soldier of fortune might result in his becoming a soldier of misfortune!2011, Brett Stephan Bass, The Letter, Indianapolis: Dogear Publishing, page 103. From the entry soldier of misfortune
• Unfortunately, due to some odd mistake, misfortune, misplan or whatever, their weapons had been placed on separate shipping and ended up somewhere else in Vietnam.2002, Kenneth P. Sympson, Images from the Otherland, page 46. From the entry misplan
• “I wasn't rejoicing at your misfortune."2000, Deepak Chopra, The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want., →ISBN, page 117. From the entry stonyheartedness
• The man who interrogated the driver commented that vigilance was needed to ensure that people did not get rich off the misfortune of the “Chernobylites.”1988, David R. Marples, The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster, page 156. From the entry chernobylite
• These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.2015 July 8, “Argentina’s Debt”, in New York Times. From the entry unrestructured
• Others who relied on their ability to tell a heartrending tale were the 'gridlers' and 'chanters', whose misfortunes would even engage the sympathies of a pawnbroker.2014, Joseph O'Neill, The Secret World of the Victorian Lodging House. From the entry gridler
• The situation prompted some Twitter users to resurrect the term “schadenford” — taking pleasure at the mayor's misfortunes — and a play on the German word schadenfreude.2011, Colin Perkel, “Police chief backs Mayor Ford on 911 call after ‘22 minutes’ fiasco”, Canadian Press (St. Albert Gazette), October 28. From the entry schadenford
• Oases, or distant smoky blurs of saksaul trees, appeared like moments of remission in lives of misfortune—rumored, hallucinated, prayed for, not always where they were supposed to be.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, pages 844–5. From the entry saksaul

Meaning of misfortune

1. noun Synonym of bad luck.
2. noun An instance of bad luck, an undesirable event such as an accident.

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Questions about misfortune in a sentence

How do you use misfortune in a sentence?

Misfortune is used as a noun. For example: “The worst tour I have ever had the misfortune to experience.”

What is a short sentence with misfortune?

“Their pleasure was alloyed with misfortune.”

What does misfortune mean?

Misfortune means synonym of bad luck.