unfortunate victim
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunfortunateandvictim
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unfortunate
adjective
uk/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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victim
noun[C]
uk/ˈvɪk.tɪm/us/ˈvɪk.təm/
someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness ...
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(Definition ofunfortunateandvictimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I was theunfortunatevictimof five of them.
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Here theunfortunatevictimof this has to pay whatever his means may be.
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It seeks to overcome all the unjustified obstacles facing anunfortunatevictimsuffering from personal injury.
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At the same time, he is theunfortunatevictimof humanity's own masochism.
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The paper published the name, the age and a picture of theunfortunatevictim.
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Theunfortunatevictimwould, reasonably, suppose that officialdom had succumbed to extreme malice or total derangement.
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In this matter what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for theunfortunatevictimof.
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Theunfortunatevictimwas stretched out in a cell, and heavy burdens of iron were placed on his chest.
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It is said that we ought not to think of the prisoner but of theunfortunatevictim.
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The shock is thus borne as a whole, and theunfortunatevictimno longer feels deserted by his friends.
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Theunfortunatevictimof this blackmail came to us and of course the matter had to be referred to me.
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Even if the offender—perhaps a robber with violence—is known to have considerable funds, theunfortunatevictimcannot get his doctor's bill paid.
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No, it is not the driver who goes into the infirmary; it is theunfortunatevictim—unless he goes into the mortuary.
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A case was tried a year or two ago in which theunfortunatevictimof the blackmail had committed an offence.
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It is true that the poorunfortunatevictimwho has been injured may have a cause of action against the solicitor for negligence.
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Thereafter, theunfortunatevictimwill be doomed to wander in the form of this monster.
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From the paint of view of theunfortunatevictimof what is euphemistically called a contract, this is a bit specious dialectic which is cynical, legalistic and heartless.
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If it struck, the second parachute deployed and theunfortunatevictimwas left towing away the contraption.
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Unkindness and conduct producing distress may be quite incapable of legal proof, and perhaps only known to theunfortunatevictim, and yet may be an effective cause of breakdown.
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We think that 43 should be the minimum, for it is certainly little enough for any family to exist on, particularly where extra expense is entailed for theunfortunatevictim.
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It may shed suspicion on theunfortunatevictimwhich, if it is not finally scotched, may follow him for the rest of his public and, indeed, his private life.
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