ill-fated

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To assume a tailored, yet mass produced lesson will teach this class better than a trained individual is ill-fated.

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marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

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adjective

See also: doomed, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky

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To assume a tailored, yet mass produced lesson will teach this class better than a trained individual is ill-fated.

We didn't win, but someone who produced Anderson Cooper's ill-fated daytime talk show was a judge, and passed us along to his team.

Can't help but feel Ouya's sitting in a niche that someone's going to snap up in 6 months or so like the iPad did to the ill-fated crunchPad/JooJoo.

A team of researchers found that Chinese Americans die younger than expected "if they have a combination of disease and birth year which Chinese astrology and medicine considers ill-fated.