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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : luhk-lis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌk lɪs |
Definition of luckless
Origin :- 1560s, from luck (n.) + -less. Related: Lucklessly; lucklessness.
- adj cursed
- In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- I have, indeed, been the luckless victim of wayward follies; but, alas!
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- Mishap, desertion, and shipwreck pursued the luckless commander.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- So the luckless Harold was hauled out of bed and given his sailing-orders.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- From this extremity there is but one means of escape, and one alone, for the luckless prisoner.
- Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon
- And when the luckless jam was washed from my face 'Richard was himself again.'
- Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey
- To retreat at all is humiliation, but to retreat as this luckless army did was agony.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole
- Friday was the luckless day of my own failure and broken heart.
- Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang
- It is generally supposed that Mallet was this luckless person.
- Extract from : « The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes » by Samuel Johnson
- "I don't know just what I ought to say," went on the luckless Walt.
- Extract from : « Stanford Stories » by Charles K. Field
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