Words similar to misfortune

Example sentences for: misfortune

How can you use “misfortune” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

We pity a tragic hero such as Hamlet because his misfortune is undeserved, and we tremble at the realization that he is like us.
If you don't know the difference between the appropriate contexts in which to use two examples placed one after the other in your grammar book, it's a consequence of your mind's incapacity to grasp how things ought to be correctly expressed, not that you've had the misfortune of being born into the working class.
Only you know whether a potential life-altering misfortune befalling him will make you feel pleased or remorseful.
The misfortune of Coz's career may be that he is gunning for journalistic respectability at a time when journalistic respectability doesn't pay.
Answer: "The truth is that Europeans--and not just the French, who at least admit to it--positively enjoy transatlantic misfortune.