Words similar to misfortune

Example sentences for: misfortune

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Woolf provides a nightmarish echo to Mrs. Dalloway in Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), an ex-soldier who has had the misfortune of witnessing a buddy being blown to bits in front of his eyes.
Only you know whether a potential life-altering misfortune befalling him will make you feel pleased or remorseful.
I had the misfortune of watching one of the Barnes-Perdue debates on C-SPAN.
In his latest book, Enduring Love , this struggle to make sense of misfortune is an explicit enterprise, a contentious necessity for the novel's three main characters.
I have spent a good part of the past several weeks trying to get any kind of non-800 Internet access for two of our libraries that have the misfortune of not having an ISP in their local calling area.