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Definition of luckless in English: lucklessadjective ˈlʌkləsˈləkləs Having bad luck; unfortunate. 背运的;不幸的 an osprey seized the luckless fish with its talons Example sentencesExamples - Stirling County will remember their last match of this season after scoring seven touchdowns in their relegation consigning job on luckless Peebles.
- Before that I'd been living directly opposite, in a luckless bivouac best forgotten, sharing with two couples.
- The latest injury to the luckless Henderson is a huge blow for the player.
- But few policyholders will find themselves in the perilous state shared by her luckless investors.
- St John's continued their good form in Men's Three with a 6-3 away win over luckless Terry's.
- Poetry, being one of those luckless art forms whose practitioners remain in constant danger of outnumbering their audience, is rarely news.
- On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor.
- It's mind-boggling to think that, a mere four years before, Hendrix had been a luckless session player.
- She remains, as she always has been, a pleasant, thoughtful young woman, but the luckless Schnyder found her in mean mood.
- As you leave the wreck, look out for squid hovering on the edge of your boat's pool of light, waiting for luckless fish who are also attracted by the glare.
- As the train stayed stubbornly put, she began mentally to sketch out a story about a luckless orphan who became a wizarding hero.
- A freak goal 10 minutes from time consigned luckless Lancaster City to a sixth successive league defeat at Giant Axe on Saturday.
- Just a few metres away from where most of the crashes have happened is a deep, open drain, certain to present a luckless driver with anything but a soft landing.
- But in a new twist a witness has come forward and identified the van in which the kidnappers were driving when they nabbed the luckless straw man.
- As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame.
- Bernie is the quintessential ironic protagonist, the luckless man.
- If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you hairless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it!
- In the end a battling and luckless second half by the Kildare lads was not enough to atone for their first half defensive lapses and the champions held out for a hard earned victory.
- He was living in New York by that stage, opening one luckless restaurant after another and putting on weight, but still attracting young women.
- He has since suffered a luckless defeat at Newcastle, meeting trouble in running and being denied a clear run until it was too late to finish any closer than fifth in a big field.
Synonyms unlucky, unfortunate, unsuccessful, out of luck, down on one's luck, jinxed, cursed, doomed, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed disadvantaged unhappy, miserable, wretched, forlorn
Derivativesadverb Grabbing lucklessly for more descriptive language for costumery, I see that my notes often describe dresses as "beauty-queen pageant gowns." Example sentencesExamples - The six-year-old is overdue a winning turn and is fancied to step up on his recent Hereford outing, when he was lucklessly carried out by a loose horse approaching the final flight of hurdles.
- Lucklessly for him, they rejected it too.
- Leeds lucklessly lost to Bayern Munich in the European Cup final and were then banned from Europe after an after match riot
noun No such lucklessness has followed his immediate successor in the depiction of artists in Britain. Example sentencesExamples - And the decisive moments of an encounter that ought to prevent him enjoying days out in the Highlands this winter just summed up the lucklessness of the little man.
- I could not tell if it was a sigh of relief or a sigh of lucklessness, but nevertheless he sighed.
Definition of luckless in US English: lucklessadjectiveˈləkləsˈləkləs Having bad luck; unfortunate. 背运的;不幸的 an osprey seized the luckless fish with its talons Example sentencesExamples - Before that I'd been living directly opposite, in a luckless bivouac best forgotten, sharing with two couples.
- On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor.
- It's mind-boggling to think that, a mere four years before, Hendrix had been a luckless session player.
- In the end a battling and luckless second half by the Kildare lads was not enough to atone for their first half defensive lapses and the champions held out for a hard earned victory.
- If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you hairless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it!
- But few policyholders will find themselves in the perilous state shared by her luckless investors.
- Stirling County will remember their last match of this season after scoring seven touchdowns in their relegation consigning job on luckless Peebles.
- Poetry, being one of those luckless art forms whose practitioners remain in constant danger of outnumbering their audience, is rarely news.
- He was living in New York by that stage, opening one luckless restaurant after another and putting on weight, but still attracting young women.
- She remains, as she always has been, a pleasant, thoughtful young woman, but the luckless Schnyder found her in mean mood.
- A freak goal 10 minutes from time consigned luckless Lancaster City to a sixth successive league defeat at Giant Axe on Saturday.
- St John's continued their good form in Men's Three with a 6-3 away win over luckless Terry's.
- But in a new twist a witness has come forward and identified the van in which the kidnappers were driving when they nabbed the luckless straw man.
- Just a few metres away from where most of the crashes have happened is a deep, open drain, certain to present a luckless driver with anything but a soft landing.
- As the train stayed stubbornly put, she began mentally to sketch out a story about a luckless orphan who became a wizarding hero.
- As you leave the wreck, look out for squid hovering on the edge of your boat's pool of light, waiting for luckless fish who are also attracted by the glare.
- Bernie is the quintessential ironic protagonist, the luckless man.
- He has since suffered a luckless defeat at Newcastle, meeting trouble in running and being denied a clear run until it was too late to finish any closer than fifth in a big field.
- As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame.
- The latest injury to the luckless Henderson is a huge blow for the player.
Synonyms unlucky, unfortunate, unsuccessful, out of luck, down on one's luck, jinxed, cursed, doomed, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed |