Adjective : a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors. From Dictionary.com.
If they are going to match their achievement in Germany in 2006, that so called luckless streak is going to have to come to an end in Nelspruit. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
I can easily imagine the story of "luckless" Carol trying to keep poor "Lucky" on the right side of the dirt. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 468] Reference
The luckless father was captured by my blackguard friend. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Goethe, 380 hymn of a hermit, 382 the luckless lover, 383. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
At some point you have to ask yourself: Do I feel luckless?. From Wordnik.com. [The Pathetic Phallacy] Reference
But some luckless ensign who has lately joined his regiment at. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The treatment which the luckless envoys experienced on their return from. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It seemed that we must be leaving the path strewn with luckless victims. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
But oh! how the jolly old rain poured down upon the luckless pilgrimage!. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
It tore and bit as if nothing would appease it but the luckless victim's death. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Shiver my timbers!" said the luckless Sailor-Lad, "she'll be the death of me.". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
In a luckless hour, the Delawares gave their consent, and agreed to become women. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
It was a question now of which would reach the luckless man first, the boat or the shark. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Scarcely have the luckless words escaped his lips, than a violent sound of thunder is heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Here in their sacrificial crate were the luckless scapegoats, sad-eyed prey of the propeller. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Some luckless wight has taken a satisfactory note of the dress and general appearance of a Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
For the luckless Billiard, after turning a summersault high in the air, fell astraddle the neck of. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Then the men returned, stripped the plumes from their luckless victims and departed in their canoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The mediæval plan was to extort a toll from every luckless traveler in the name of baron or bandit. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Audiences really enjoy such contretemps, cruel as such accidents or mishaps may be to the luckless player. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
There was plenty in Ruby's background to suggest that he was just a luckless lout trying to avenge Kennedy's death. From Wordnik.com. ['I Wanted To Be A Hero'] Reference
If odor be the flower's expression of its soul, what rude and evil tenants must dwell within those luckless mansions!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
For a good example of what can go wrong, consider the luckless workers at Carter Hawley Hale, which filed for bankruptcy in 1991. From Wordnik.com. [When A 401(K) Is Not Ok] Reference
Let the luckless one ask of me no more; let him call only upon the succulent; let him recruit among the full ranks of the adipose. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
The last stroke tolled out, sad and hollow as a funereal knell, and the sound mingled with the death-cry of the luckless Thirteenth!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
I hope the reader will forgive me for my luckless description of the procession to lay the corner stone of the Halifax Lunatic Asylum, in. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Happy men, without horses to look after, were looting fowls and porkers, for the district was a good one; but such was not for us luckless. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Beholding her safe and sound Miss Arthur began to pour out upon the luckless head of Céline, the vials of wrath prepared for her benefit. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
So the shattered casques and broken bones of many a luckless armadillo were strewn along the way, mute evidences of Suma's insatiable savagery. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The luckless Ruepelmei is also liberated, being too much of a fool, to deserve even the Prince's scorn, who further decrees that the foolish town may keep their. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The contest began and proceeded remarkably well, with only the loss of a too-curious cow and a few luckless birds at the hands of the less accomplished suitors. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
Although her husband asks her to trust him, she fears that he may once leave her as mysteriously, as he came, and at last she cannot refrain from asking the luckless question. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
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