ill-fated
- s marked by or promising bad fortune
an ill-fated business venture
- Images of the crew, the mission and the aftermath of the ill-fated flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
- It is hard to imagine more ill-fated births than those of Kerstin, Stefan and Felix Fritzl.
- Now Roger is sweating under the hot lights as questions pile up about whether he had a role in an outrageous array of slippery and ill-fated schemes ranging from Mafioso pardons to .