Words similar to unlucky

Example sentences for: unlucky

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

Or else he writes about strange, grief-stricken, lonely souls, perhaps half-mad, who seem to have been picked up like leaves by some inexplicable wind and blown around the world until they attach themselves randomly to the first unlucky person who comes their way.
"The Lewinsky Affair" fits in with the American tradition of naming scandals after unlucky people or objects, and it sounds great in French.
The Amida Hall of Hasedera houses the image of a seated Amida Buddha, endowed by Minamoto no Yoritomo when he was 42 — a particularly unlucky age according to popular Japanese belief.
How many giants and tyrants unlucky enough to have left body parts or ashes behind when they shuffled off the mortal coil could have imagined what scientists and medical practitioners of the future would do with their physical remains?
The Kennedys are not "star-crossed, cursed, or unlucky," it said in a front-page report.