luckless
Example Sentences
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“Insidious” once seemed energized by its exploration of a land inhabited by the luckless dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
A below-par display against Dimitrov went unpunished when the luckless Bulgarian popped a pectoral muscle in the third set.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
