unfortunate
Example Sentences
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"There were irregularities concerning the overflight authorisations, which was regrettable, and we apologise for this unfortunate incident," Tuggar said on national TV.
From BBC
“The city and the county did a lot of things that we would look back at and say was very unfortunate,” she told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times
That’s unfortunate, given that Monday’s data highlighted the potential need for it.
From Barron's
An unfortunate circumstance led to Lincoln Riley getting a big opportunity many years ago at the Alamo Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times
By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
