I. adjective
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an adverse/unfortunate consequence (= that affects your life, a situation etc badly )
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Divorce often has unfortunate consequences for children.
an unfortunate coincidence
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By a very unfortunate coincidence, she didn’t get either of his emails.
an unfortunate error
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An unfortunate error resulted in confidential information being released to the press.
an unfortunate incident (= involving an accident or argument )
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Disciplinary action may be taken over this unfortunate incident.
an unfortunate victim
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If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.
have the unfortunate habit of doing sth (= do something that makes other people feel embarrassed or offended )
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Teenage girls have the unfortunate habit of laughing too loudly.
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■ ADVERB
most
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The marriage feast was perhaps the most unfortunate that ever took place.
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Completely discredited, the curé said: a most unfortunate mistake.
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No reason why even the most unfortunate mortal should ever have a breath of depression.
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But Leonora's approaches had a most unfortunate effect.
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One most unfortunate consequence of the Counter-Reformation must be mentioned.
particularly
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Hiding from self and hiding from others interact in a particularly unfortunate way.
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The harsher conditions attaching to the receipt of unemployment benefit affect all claimants, but the consequences for women are particularly unfortunate .
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In these circumstances the absence of full legal rights to advocacy and representation is particularly unfortunate .
rather
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This leaves successful unassisted parties in a rather unfortunate position. 6.
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But Kant's choice of examples is rather unfortunate .
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We got her from Sidney Fawcett, but she had a rather unfortunate weakness.
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It was all rather unfortunate for City, whose impressive opening minutes promised much.
■ NOUN
accident
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Since the unfortunate accident to your father, I have had the strangest presentiments concerning you, at times.
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Last Friday's unfortunate accident left the club with no alternative.
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Although thousands of children are killed or injured each year in unfortunate accidents , something made this case special.
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It was a very unfortunate accident .
consequence
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One most unfortunate consequence of the Counter-Reformation must be mentioned.
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To choose one point of view over the other can lead to unfortunate consequences for both the humanists and politicians.
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This tendency has the unfortunate consequence of making program administrators less open to evaluation and more suspicious of its value.
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This has the unfortunate consequence that they are much more likely to kill their patients than to cure them.
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The unfortunate consequence of this aggressive approach has been the development of hypoparathyroidism in more than 10 percent of patients undergoing surgery.
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This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach.
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People will be reluctant to hold them, and that would have unfortunate consequences in the form of higher interest rates.
experience
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I had another upset after the unfortunate experience with Chip and Tip.
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He may have had an unfortunate experience with a highway engineer - Mr. Hughes Several.
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Particularly after her unfortunate experience with Ben Braithwaite.
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The Palace Girls had an unfortunate experience trying to reach Paris.
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This is, of course, just the sort of unfortunate experience which can scar a young girl for life.
fact
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In addition, it is an unfortunate fact that some gay men are paedophiles, however few in comparison with heterosexual men.
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It is an unfortunate fact that Klein has almost no sociological theory, and that Marcuse has no therapeutic theory.
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For the sexually active, this is an unfortunate fact of life.
habit
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For Rubberneck had the unfortunate habit of hanging around outside school play-yards.
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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Redundancy is more than an unfortunate habit , however, and results from four factors: 1.
incident
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This led to an unfortunate incident at Leamington Station in 1874.
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This has been a very unfortunate incident , unfortunate that it even occurred.
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As far as I can recall there were no unfortunate incidents involving animals in Baldersdale.
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Store owners kept each other abreast of these unfortunate incidents and warned each other.
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I watched the fish for several weeks before the unfortunate incident of the Great Grand Union Drought disaster.
man
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We heard of a case in which an unfortunate man accidentally swallowed one.
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The unfortunate man had been killed before he had an opportunity to enjoy his bountiful store...
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Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
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The unfortunate man was Mr John Stevenson, a young lawyer from London.
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The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window.
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This unfortunate man exemplifies many of the problems of mentally disordered offenders.
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Eventually, exhaustion forced the unfortunate man to abandon the chase.
people
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Today, many unfortunate people have too much enforced leisure, when they would actually prefer to be occupied.
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For I helped to heap further suffering on those unfortunate people .
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She was one of those unfortunate people who seem to invite disaster wherever they go.
result
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The unfortunate result - a general bitterness towards nations of a stronger foundation.
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This may have been the unfortunate result of damage from the dismantling of H-4 during the disclosure proceedings.
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He added that the delay was the unfortunate result of three emergency calls arriving within an hour.
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This has had an unfortunate result .
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The unfortunate result can be a Change of the Month routine.
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That is simply part of the unfortunate result of some of their individual restraints.
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The White House initiative did perhaps have one real and unfortunate result .
thing
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Of all the unfortunate things to happen.
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The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction.
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Just one of those unfortunate things .
victim
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The unfortunate victim was wheeled directly into the major treatment area, where he was examined by the duty medical officer.
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This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital.
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This theory also has the last unfortunate victim as a man called Coln, hence the name Colnbrook.
woman
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One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine.
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He would have dragged the unfortunate woman back here with him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lucky/unfortunate etc enough to be/do sth
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Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl.
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And handsome David Wood, who now runs his own hairdressing salon in Melbourne, was lucky enough to date her.
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And I was lucky enough to sit in the catbird seat and watch and learn and be changed myself.
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And when I was lucky enough to enjoy some rare hot weather my feet stayed as cool as I could have expected.
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I thought I had been lucky enough to pick up a shore current that was helping me along toward the rip.
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If you are lucky enough to see one, observe it from a distance.
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Regardless of their preferences, not every couple is lucky enough to find two equal jobs in the same community.
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Some authors are lucky enough to think naturally in terms of story.
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"It was an unfortunate set of circumstances that no one could have predicted," a spokesperson said today.
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an unfortunate accident
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an unfortunate marriage
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He has an unfortunate habit of repeating himself.
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He was unfortunate enough to lose his job just after his wife had a baby.
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It was very unfortunate that someone ended up getting hurt.
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Parents are so busy with their careers that they don't have time to have fun with their children, and that's unfortunate .
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Quarterback Brady Anderson was injured in an unfortunate collision with one of his team-mates.
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Some of the unfortunate victims were trapped inside the building for over 12 hours.
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The mix-up was the result of a set of unfortunate circumstances.
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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But his tendency to depreciate the validity of gratitude is unfortunate .
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He added that the delay was the unfortunate result of three emergency calls arriving within an hour.
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I think these hundreds of unfortunate beings have some rights which we should consider.
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It's unfortunate it had to happen.
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Setting specific financial goals before you begin your new business is a way to avoid this unfortunate situation.
II. noun
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a poor unfortunate
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Frankie had been one of those unfortunates.
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Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
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The ferryman was Charon and those he would not admit to his boat were the unfortunates who had not been duly buried.