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jinxed

How to use jinxed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for jinxed.

Editorial note

I’m sure I just jinxed it now though.

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Quick take

(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jinxed.

adjective

(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

Example sentences

1

I’m sure I just jinxed it now though.

2

Even its name seems to have jinxed it. Some cool tech was there.

3

Awww ya jinxed it. And only nine days from retirement.

4

Com/incidents/641 I think they jinxed themselves: "Running apps will not be affected."

5

<-- evidently I jinxed it. So maybe Bandcamp is not the exception.

6

Imagine that your watch was jinxed. Every time you looked at it, you would be either either too early to prepare for the next thing you need to do, or already too late.

7

Sorry all I jinxed it. Yesterday I was in a meeting and said "The only regional outages AWS has ever had were in us-east-1, so we should just move to us-east-2."

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I think I might have been the one that jinxed it. > I’m also wary of any private trackers because they block using VPNs. Yeh, that policy's not great.

9

You jinxed it, so I'll be the "some comment": prions won't spread everywhere all at once, so humanity will probably self-isolate in at least a few prion-free clusters.

10

I may have jinxed it; the other day i was thinking how impressive it is that Microsoft handles their decades old AD/azure/live/xbox/etc auth systems and that they all work together well. In this case, is there another company with a similarly old and complex auth system that does exemplary work?

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To this day, I'm sure the landlady still thinks I jinxed her fridge even though she was well aware that I was employed in high-end engineering work. That incident led me to investigate how sophisticated planned-obsolescence engineering had become, and I can assure you it's extremely sophisticated.

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So, for instance, I don't talk about potential sales calls, leads, stuff I'm picking up, projects I'm working on -- anything that could possibly be "jinxed" It's probably just superstition, but dang if every time I talk about one of these things it seems to ruin it.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use jinxed in a sentence?

I’m sure I just jinxed it now though.

What does jinxed mean?

(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

What part of speech is jinxed?

jinxed is commonly used as adjective.