luckless
Example Sentences
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Subtitled “An Almost History of America” and arriving on the eve of the nation’s semiquincentennial, this seven-episode sketch comedy comes from Larry David, television’s great luckless crank, and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
"McLaren helped us today," he joked, referring to the opening lap crash in the sprint which saw Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg hit Piastri's McLaren and push him into the luckless Norris.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Being luckless in love is commonplace these days.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
Gathering routine genre elements — the masked predator, the luckless teenage victims, the cabin-in-the-woods setting — Nash subordinates them all to a mood of stunning serenity.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Scheele was both an extraordinary and extraordinarily luckless fellow.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
