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Example sentences for: unfortunate

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However unfortunate purists might view that fact to be, at least if the entries are listed separately, at some graphic remove from the entry for chain , their physical distance would make their semantic, metaphoric distance more understandable.
This raising of the voice at the end of a declarative sentence is the unfortunate result of trying to fluff up something that needs no fluffing: correct speech.
It is fascinating just watching the monied clientele in these places, not to mention the lightning reflexes of the croupiers, particularly as they scoop away the unfortunate bettors’ gaming chips.
But while the notion of outsider art has proved an effective marketing concept, it is often an unfortunate interpretive one--outsider artists tend to attract a particularly crude and irritating kind of psycho-biographical analysis.
Charisma's unfortunate fate is the subject of this essay.