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How to use misfortune in a sentence

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We should not take pleasure in the misfortune of our fellow man, no matter how silly he may be.
Indeed, they had the misfortune of having three efforts rebound off the woodwork in this match.
The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft.
While the haddock was formidably smokey, the mustard cream sauce was far less rich than some versions I've had the misfortune to come across.
She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal.
I had the misfortune to be unemployed for six weeks between July and August this year.
The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty.
For example, one should not talk of death, dying or misfortune and not reminisce about the past year, as this is a new year and a new beginning.
The league game most definitely was there for the taking, and in many aspects we were the authors of our own misfortune.
I have the misfortune through my job to have to travel that road several times a day.
They've had misfortune recently with the weather, after hailstorms destroyed their vegetables.
There are similarities with Smith, who also suffered the misfortune of misdiagnosis.
We feel deep sympathy for such children and lament their continuing misfortune.
In Ireland, in particular, misfortune was frequently blamed on fairies as well as witches.
It was almost a challenge, or perhaps even a test to see if misfortune had taught them anything.
After our brief jaunt across campus, we made our way to our hotel, where misfortune struck once again.
For too long people in Scotland have tried to see Scottish misfortune as the consequence of being governed from London.
I decided to be happy every day no matter what comes, discomfort or misfortune.
He must be somehow rejected in his own country and is now making everyone he meets pay for his misfortune.
The biggest lesson that he's taken almost five years to teach me is to overcome misfortune.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Loewe told him of his misfortune and asked the composer if he would carry a letter to Therese.
He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them.
Is it for you to aggravate as a crime, what reason teaches is, at worst, a misfortune?
He suffered the misfortune of going blind, and died at Richmond in 1890, in the ninety-second year of his age.
It was the host's profound misfortune to have been overcome by that too genteel lady.
Whatever our own misfortune might be, that of Czerny's men was worse a hundredfold.
Scarcely had he recognized batiste when he seemed to understand all his misfortune.
He, instead of condoling with me on my misfortune, rather seemed to enjoy it.
Hes a slick articlein fact, the two of them are a pair of the slickest articles its ever been my misfortune to run across.
I only maintain that for me these two things are invariably the precursors of misfortune.
He's a sticker, that's wot 'e is, and it's my misfortune that 'is mother takes after 'im.
This arrest of our great friend is a misfortune, but not an irredeemable one.
This infamous magician, the basest of men, was the sole cause of my misfortune.
The Marchioness had come in spite of her son's misfortune when she heard that the Duchess of Stevenage was to be there.
From the Valley, our cavalry had the misfortune to lose eleven guns by indiscreetly venturing too far in pursuit.
To our friend this infrequency seemed to be, upon this occasion, a misfortune.
But then how often overcast by the clouds of care, how often dusked by the blight of misery and misfortune!
You have suffered so much before that your soul must now be inured to misfortune.
For this causeless misfortune, for this injury to the people, who then is to blame?
His mother was an Irishwoman, whose misfortune was that she was too beautiful.
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