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• a  having or bringing misfortune
  Friday the 13th is an unlucky date
• s  marked by or promising bad fortune
  the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

• The number 13 has been unlucky for centuries.
• A really unlucky man can break a tooth on a cheese souffl, get bitten by the gentlest of Chihuahuas, lose a big poker pot holding four kings.
• But he's gone on a nationwide quiz show hoping that his brief celebrity will catch the attention of the ravishing, unlucky Latika, whom he's loved for most of his life.

• luckless
• doomed
• ill-fated
• ill-omened
• ill-starred

• lucky

News & Articles

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• Team Report - PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
  Unlucky Hamels suffers big-league-high 10th loss
  June 17, 2013 - The SportsXchange via Yahoo! Sports
• A new cross-border tax-haven database and its significance
  The series, based on the mammoth database obtained, somehow, from two unlucky companies involved in the giant and shady asset-hiding business, continues to reverberate.
  June 17, 2013 - Columbia Journalism Review
• Blackhawks fan hit in the face by hockey puck
  One unlucky Hawks fan is recovering at home tonight after being hit by a puck during the game Wednesday night.
  June 14, 2013 - ABC 7 Chicago

Quotes

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• Fernando Torres in Contra Costa Times
  Two of the best teams in the World Cup have to play in the semifinal, so unlucky for one of them,Spain striker Fernando Torres said. "They are an attacking team and they will try to win, try to attack. But we will have more space to go at...
• Didier Drogba in The Press Association
  Drogba said: "To be able to play against Brazil and Portugal, two of the best countries in the world, is like a dream for our country. We were unlucky but at the same time really happy to have played those nations."
• Pim Verbeek in CBSSports.com
  I think we were very unlucky with the red card,Verbeek said. "It was definitely not a red card (and) it wasn't intentional." "What can you do with your arm (when the ball hits it) - you cannot cut it off."