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Synonyms for luckless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : luhk-lis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌk lɪs

Définition of luckless

Origin : 1560s, from luck (n.) + -less. Related: Lucklessly; lucklessness.

adj cursed

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for luckless

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