Unluckiness

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la méfiance (f) = distrust; le manque (m) de chance = unluckiness; une vie (f) de chien = dog's life ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hardworking David Sexton in the Evening Standard was less convinced, remarking on Frampton's unluckiness in following Sarah Bakewell's book on the same subject. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Much of Hello Ladies is taken up with his unluckiness in love. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think I never took such a bad walk as this before, since the hour I was born, in point of unluckiness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was now more than ever confirmed in his opinion of the unluckiness of the boat, and in the efficiency of the holy oil which all Bugis praus had poured through their bottoms. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was teased with being unduly superstitious and attaching too much significance to the supposed unluckiness of the number thirteen. ❋ G. P. Cuttriss (N/A)

The unluckiness of first meeting a woman is, we may note, not confined to, but merely intensified on New Year's Day; in Shropshire {14} and in Germany {15} it belongs to any ordinary day. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)

The idea of the unluckiness of a woman's being the "first-foot" is extraordinarily widespread; the present writer has met with it in an ordinary London restaurant, where great stress was laid upon a man's opening the place on New Year's morning before the waitresses arrived. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)

A sorry dowry, this, for an inheritor of a palace at once so noble and admirable in spite of its unluckiness. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)

But we are told "he was given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Mrs. Motherwell, Mrs. Slater, and Mrs. Watson had each promised to set a hen on thirteen eggs – which number is supposed to lose its unluckiness when applied to eggs – to give Thursa a start in poultry. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Mrs. Watson had each promised to set a hen on thirteen eggs -- which number is supposed to lose its unluckiness when applied to eggs -- to give Thursa a start in poultry. ❋ Nellie L. McClung (1912)

Exactly the same tide of emotion which afterwards filled to the brim the cup of prophetic anger against the desecrators of the Church and the monarchy of France, now poured itself out against those who in India had “tossed about, subverted, and tore to pieces, as if it were in the gambols of boyish unluckiness and malice, the most established rights and the most ancient and most revered institutions of ages and nations.” ❋ Morley, John (1907)

The independent testimony of Archdeacon Davies, who was vicar of Saperton, Gloucestershire, late in the seventeenth century, is to the effect that Shakespeare 'was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft whipt, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county to his great advancement.' ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare's 'unluckiness' in poaching, 27 on 'Justice Clodpate' (Justice Shallow), 29 362 ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

Sometimes I fancy that my abominable handwriting had as much to do with alienating a certain fair inconstant as the news of my reputed unluckiness. ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)

And yet this estimable family had spent its life waging war on superstition; evidently they imagined that all the superstition and error of humanity was limited to the three candles, the thirteenth of the month, and to the unluckiness of Monday! ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

He was now more than ever confirmed in his opinion of the unluckiness of the boat, and in the efficiency of the holy oil which all ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

It has been already, I believe, mentioned that, among the superstitions in which he chose to indulge, the supposed unluckiness of Friday, as a day for the commencement of any work, was one by which he, almost always, allowed himself to be influenced. ❋ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (1854)

Have you heard? He lost to children's [mining] and [crafting] game. Man, he must be [UNLUCKY] So fucking [unlucky]! I'm blocking how can she damage me? ❋ Supa Solja (2020)

'Oh no my [whole] [family] just [got] shot' - person 'Unlucky' - you ❋ Alex Blackburn (2004)

[Friend 1]: Oh no. It appears I have been [robbed]. Friend 2: [UNLUCKY]!!! ❋ Claire Bridgwells (2005)

Bobby: I failled the exam and then I [tripped] down the stairs. [Fran]: [Unlucky]. ❋ Jane Wellington (2004)

([Ben] [misses] [goal] by a lot) Josh: unlucky ❋ What_a_noob (2011)

Dang the [wheat] port is on the other side of the board, [unlucky] him. [My mom died], unlucky. ❋ Goat Definitions7777 (2017)

unlucky leader: state ur name and push unlucky [underling]: unlucky 13 also known as friday of oakland cali my push is [yola] and [purp] ❋ Unlucky11 (2007)

Dude 1: hey whats up Dude 2: not much man, broke my hand today Dude 1: hahaha [UNLUCKY] dickhead Dude 2: I'd punch u in the face if i [wasnt] a [crippled retard] ❋ BIGROBDIZZLE (2007)

[Patto] got really [unlucky] with [Ram] on Friday night ❋ BigDogPat (2018)

Unlucky [brother] ❋ Hdgdhbc (2019)