mischance

Example Sentences

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He concludes that “for all their focus on random mischance, nothing in the brothers’ vise-tight, magisterially engineered movies could possibly be happening by accident.”

From Los Angeles Times

Much about a buzzy evening served to remind an observer of the role that chance and mischance play in any Hollywood success.

From New York Times

But at least according to the following poems, the posh East End communities are as plagued by erotic mischance, romantic awkwardness and the plain old fumblings of love as anywhere.

From New York Times

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in The Canterbury Tales that “on a Friday fell all this mischance.”

From Time

"Scotland got under the English Parliament by mischance," in 1707, she said.

From US News