misadventure

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[ US /mɪsədˈvɛntʃɝ/ ]
[ UK /mɪsɐdvˈɛnt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an instance of misfortune
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How To Use misadventure In A Sentence

  • Without them, the program would appear to be the unbelievable misadventures of a fiery foreigner and his almost felonious spouse.
  • Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
  • All the details from the coroner's court: and the verdict, death by misadventure. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • The play then chronicles the subsequent misadventures of Charles, who now has to juggle two wives - one on either side of the mortal coil.
  • He keeps having delightfully comic misadventures butting heads with the Doubting Thomases of the world, whom he calls "sheeple."
  • Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure
  • The leadership's consistent flirting with disaster – whether it is famine, the ill-fated foray into supposed electoral politics in 2005, or the misadventures in Somalia – provides a clear image of a ruling party holding a nation in an extricable iron grip. When Doves Cry: US-backed Ethiopian regime imprisons opposition
  • We don't believe anybody but Roberto could bring magic and fun to Pinocchio's misadventures in this classic tale.
  • The tale of our misadventures is, like that of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, one for which the world is not yet ready.
  • She ran off stage and got fixed up, but her misadventures in incidental exhibitionism were far from over.
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