unlucky

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A few unlucky ones get the shorter end of the stick "We have to fire the bottom 5% and we thought you are one of those.

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having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

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adjective

having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

adjective

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unlucky.

adjective

having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

adjective

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

Example sentences

A few unlucky ones get the shorter end of the stick "We have to fire the bottom 5% and we thought you are one of those.

Those guys are pretty uncommon, they're disliked even in spite of their P&L, and no one helps them when they get unlucky.

Most side effects are quite benign, but if you're unlucky enough, they can be crippling, lethal, or incurable.

Not that white males who drink dry martinis cant do the job, but theres no real difference between advertising for a Ninja and throwing half your resums away because you dont like unlucky people.

If CS education in the USA is anything like here, the teacher of this class will be the unlucky fellow assigned with maintaining the school networks and other random "computer stuff".

However, you may get unlucky if your shield can volume has resonant frequencies in the operating range of the circuit which will trigger feedback and render the circuit inoperable.

If he's unlucky, and is incapacitated or otherwise unable to turn it off, well, that's quite the problem now, isn't it?I hate dreaming up hypotheticals, but this story practically demands it.

Lucky and unlucky streaks can and do last months to years for people who play thousands of hands per day. Statistics dictates that there will always be a number of outliers who, due to a combination of moving up aggressively and running hot at the right times, become millionaires in a short time and draw a lot of attention, but unless they're the real deal and sufficiently bankrolled to cover the swings, it will all go back, often as quickly as it came.