How To Use Misfortune In A Sentence

She's suffered a good deal of misfortune over the years.
It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.

I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
Various strokes of misfortune led to his ruin.
Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when I read in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on I realize what a creature the human animal is. Mark Twain: A Biography
That's because he very nearly lost the lot through a catalogue of misfortune three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
It has been my experience, and sometimes misfortune, that rubber grips attract and hold moisture underneath, promoting rust.
Here's hoping, that, someday in the not too distant future, the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never more in real life.
He has the odd misfortune of repeatedly hiring party stooges for key assignments who stab him in the back as soon as they leave his employ.
Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. Chapter 3
Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
Needless to say, losing one's source of income at a young age is a devastating personal misfortune.
Some inspired driving and mechanical misfortunes for others saw Moss bring the green car home in front.
I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
Where is the incentive to act responsibly by trying to safeguard against the financial consequences of life's misfortunes?
Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
Visually you can picture this as some kind of burbling pot where the foam that rises brings the violent ones to the surface and the more moderate ones remain at the bottom of the pot and receive whatever misfortunes trickle down from the bomb throwing ones who flourish at the top of the pot. When Is a Shoah not a Shoah?
While that may be true for a minority, most people with debt problems simply lost their job or suffered some other misfortune. Times, Sunday Times
I decided to be happy every day no matter what comes, discomfort or misfortune.
It was my misfortune to attend a ceremony in Pusan. KoreaToday
Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
The worst misfortunes are these that never hzppen.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Schadenfreude -- a German word for glee over the misfortune of others -- is actually as American as casino gambling. The Fame Game: Why Everyone's Gloating
And in just one respect, Britain was the architect of its own misfortune.
For the next thing that was heard of her, and that by a mere chance, was that she was marred to Mynheer van Hunker, 'a rascallion of an old half-bred Dutchman, 'as my hot-tongued sister called him, who had come over to fatten on our misfortunes by buying up the cavaliers' plate and jewels, and lending them money on their estates. Stray Pearls
For example, one should not talk of death, dying or misfortune and not reminisce about the past year, as this is a new year and a new beginning.
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
Most people who follow sport know enough not to gloat: your own misfortunes will follow soon enough. Times, Sunday Times
To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
Building flood defences is a natural reaction to the misfortunes suffered by many earlier in the year. Times, Sunday Times
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes.
The Cody Canal continued to suffer from bureaucratic failures and misfortunes.
I would not like to think that my survival was dependent upon the hope of misfortune being visited on other farmers.
Woman, he declares, is the "crooked piece of man," and man has no greater misfortune than that he must commune with her to reproduce: it is "the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. Was It Something I Said?
The researchers autopsied 302 people who had died suddenly of heart attacks, auto accidents, or other misfortunes.
Seated on his left, Georgia had the misfortune of being eye level with an oozing pimple buried in his scraggly sideburn. Georgia’s Kitchen
In 1921 Maitland's previously brilliant career ended in misfortune and tragedy.
Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single].
Infection; Misfortunes may be catching as well as Sickness; leave me alone to my Sighs and Tears; stay not at all, lest my unweary Tongue pronounce your Ruin; leave me, I say, that I may gently expire without the Agony of seeing you undone. Exilius
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. Edward Gibbon
Once a shadowy misfortune families hid as if it were shameful, depression is becoming just another slice of the health-care business.
Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
The old king was now left with no other companion than the poor fool, who still abided with him, with his merry conceits striving to outjest misfortune, saying it was but a naughty night to swim in, and truly the king had better go in and ask his daughter's blessing: -- Tales from Shakespeare
Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single].
She seemed more interested in Willy's student days than his subsequent misfortunes.
With Johnny "two shags" Prescott being dobbed in for having an affair with his secretary, you would have to have a heart of stone not to giggle inanely at the misfortune that has befallen his former boss, ex-leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock. One shouldn't gloat, but…
Chinese philosophers believe in the mutual convertibility of blessings and misfortunes and nowhere is this dramatized so vividly as in Chinese officialdom.
On hearing of his misdeeds, the ‘witch’ has no trouble believing that he is indeed the cause of his tribesman's misfortunes.
I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
“Let me not,” said he, “waste my compassion upon nothing; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell me, then, if thou deservest it, or if thy misfortunes are imaginary, and thy grief is factitious?” Cecilia
In a way, it has been Puccini's misfortune to be remembered primarily as a melodist. Puccini Was Not Just a Melodist
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
The lower gods can either assist people or bring misfortune to them.
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
This photo and the others in this post were taken by my friend, Jim Karsh, a 747 pilot who frequently flies to Japan and had the misfortune to be playing tourist in the city of Tokyo when the earthquake hit on Friday. Christine Negroni: Stuck in Narita -- An Airline Pilot's Story From the Quake
Yet she could feel for her father, in spite of the fact that whatever her accent or grammatical mistakes, her mother's conduct was always right and her father, with his charming air, a little blurred by what he called misfortune, his clear speech to which Henrietta loved to listen, was fundamentally unsound. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
After their misfortunes the family slowly became prosperous.
They all seemed to be omens to me, harbingers of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
From the earliest battles against swamps and unpredictable tides, to the occurrence of fatal wharfside fires, the history of Port Adelaide is infused with misfortune and tragedy.
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
One misfortune rides upon another’s back.
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
Wasn't she the one who unleashed all manner of misfortune upon the world?
Tears also gushed from the eyes of Clerval, as he read the account of my misfortune. Chapter 6
The members of the society called the faubourg Saint-Germain protected the princess by a respectful silence due to her name, which is one of those that all men honor, to her misfortunes, which they ceased to discuss, and to her beauty, the only thing she saved of her departed opulence. Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Silence is learnt by the may misfortunes of life.
Born of people's misfortunes, credit counseling was a sleepy cottage industry for a long time.
Today, social security benefits, superannuation schemes and other forms of insurance cushion us from the very worst effects of death, retirement, unemployment and chance misfortunes.
He is unfortunate who cannot bear misfortune.
misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Our misfortune is that we seem to be in the wrong geographical position for the proposed new parish boundaries.
For them, a childless marriage is considered a great misfortune.
The first of these can be seen simply as a misfortune: Unity was an afflicted person and what could the family do but endure her affliction. Times, Sunday Times
Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature.
Still, both teams have the misfortune of playing in the divisions with the best teams in their conferences, so both are more likely to be wildcard contenders.
The principles with which he had been seasoned in his youth served to render him more tractable and civilized when under his last misfortunes, unto which he fell with the two afore-mentioned malefactors; they being all indicted for assaulting one Mr. Francis Williams on the highway, and taking from him a silver watch value three pounds, two guineas and a moidore, [79] on the 28th of February, 1728. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
It was almost a challenge, or perhaps even a test to see if misfortune had taught them anything.
Sometimes they were assisted with money to buy medicines or helped with other misfortunes.
One misfortune rides upon another’s back.
Not able to work, he struggles to envision a future for himself and how his misfortune might end.
Consequently, to be able to despair is an infinite advantage, and yet to be in despair is not only the worst misfortune and misery — no, it is ruination. I want to be somebody! Who can I be?
Old Ivy had said that the cows were all that stood between them and the fate of others who had, through misfortune, accepted the title despised by the quality. A Son of the Hills
Often that is the case, but many are innocent victims of cruel misfortune. Times, Sunday Times
What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
Such a community spirit is also reinforced through the shared misfortune of mining disasters.
The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology. I Say No
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
Ironically their misfortune may lead to a cure for others.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
I trudged up the walkway into the tiny undersized school that I had the misfortune to attend.
He could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.
To combat any potential misfortune, they stick out the second and fifth digits of one hand and touch their genitals with the outstretched fingertips.
The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to create aged youth. Les Miserables
She had the misfortune to break her leg.
In these Dukhobor villages, the people practically constitute one large family, and know each other's outgoings and incomings, fortunes and misfortunes. Janey Canuck in the West
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
So, too, do those people in towns who have the misfortune to live near the wrong warehouse.
After our brief jaunt across campus, we made our way to our hotel, where misfortune struck once again.
A man awakens to find himself in poverty instead of in wealth; his possessions suddenly swept away; or from health, he, or some one whose life is still dearer to him than his own, prostrated with illness; or to find himself unjustly accused or maligned, or misunderstood, or to encounter some other of the myriad phases of what he calls misfortune and tribulation. The Life Radiant
Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends.
As a result of Wilberfoss' misfortune and a 4-1 walloping of Wheldrake, White Horse moved into third place in the table.
Make sure that that the tires are properly inflated to avoid misfortunes on the road.
If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if she is not emotional, she needs reason; if she is not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly. coz only she has is misfortune.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
There was especially a hoy who, after being compassionated in money for his misfortune, continued to fling his wooden leg into the air and wave it at our window by some masterly gymnastics; and there was another boy who kept lamenting that he had no mother, till, having duly feed and fed him, I suggested, “But you have a father?” Familiar Spanish Travels
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
Here's hoping, that, someday in the not too distant future, the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never more in real life.
We are a blameworthy species, always seeking scapegoats for our misfortunes and setbacks. Times, Sunday Times
I tried hard to overcome the great misfortunes that had befallen me and tried to finish my last days as a teacher with peace and faith in God.
He could have endured poverty; and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it: but the ingratitude of the Turk, and the loss of his beloved Safie, were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable. Chapter 14
The show tells of the fortunes, and misfortunes, of Magnolia, the daughter of the owner of the showboat and her gambler husband Gaylord Ravenal.
His misfortunes spurred him to write.
Another aspect of the wise-woman's status is that she is regarded as an oracular authority for her community regarding the meaning and significance of experiences they fail to understand - accidents, misfortunes, mysterious illness.
Insurance is really a noble concept: people in a community each put money into a pot, and if someone suffers misfortune they are reimbursed from the pot. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The New Middle Class Tax
Through that view-medium of misfortune -- of a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature death -- we view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns's were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
The other old man, whose clothes were equally squalid, sat more upright, and seemed livelier, and of a lighter heart, misfortune not having yet touched so blightingly the natural volatility of his disposition; for, now and then, he spoke in low tones to his companion, who sometimes smiled, but rarely made answer. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
It is a contemporary tale of medical misfortune which paradoxically illustrates quite dramatically the remarkable achievements of modern medicine.
It is a misfortune, but nobody has charged that it was fraudulent.
They commiserated the misfortune of their teacher.
It was a great misfortune that she was widowed so young. Times, Sunday Times
He had sympathy with those who were brought low by misfortune.
She had the misfortune to break her leg.
It was the misfortune of Miss Salmon to suffer periodically and acutely from biliousness (which she called neuralgia). This Freedom
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
But his misfortune was unabating: she was bitten by a snake and died.
Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
Hobbie Elliot had, in the meanwhile, pursued his journey rapidly, harassed by those oppressive and indistinct fears that all was not right, which men usually term a presentiment of misfortune. The Black Dwarf
In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin. Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
They had the misfortune to be hit by a violent storm.
Alliss did not react well to such misfortune and does not spare himself in the telling of the saddest chapter of his endlessly eventful life.
Only wimps and wusses blamed their misfortune on others - real men made their own fortune.
He must be somehow rejected in his own country and is now making everyone he meets pay for his misfortune.
He is perennially dogged by comic mishaps and misfortunes, usually of his own making.
Most of the eleven essays here aim at remedying that spiritual and theological misfortune.
Even if the occupants of the building harbour no superstitious beliefs, customers can be lost and predictions of bad luck and misfortune can result by neglecting the demands of feng shui.
There's a whole city full of chancers round here, but we've always had a lot time for Pete, a man who's managed to keep up a profile despite fate hitting him over and over with the garden rake of misfortune.
Is he the only geophysics supervisor to have suffered the misfortune of losing a student to the great geophysicist in the sky?
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).
She was a glamorous loser, a musical comedy tragedienne, a mixture of frivolity and misfortune.
Schadenfreude - a German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. Schadenfreude
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
Sport is opportunistic and participants capitalise on the misfortune of others.
When you suffer a misfortune, you are faced with the choice of what to do with it. Love, Medicine and Miracles
That's probably the most bare and bleak island I've ever had the misfortune to clap eyes on.
Mr. Velarde and Ms. Palencia had the misfortune of finishing Polytechnic University of Madrid's architecture program the year of the collapse. Exodus of Workers From Continent Reverses Old Patterns
KABBALAH ME CRAZY: Madonna’s new orphan Davie is sporting the latest in baby trends: A mini-vest, Nike sneakers, and a thin red string associated with Judaism’s Kabbalah and inspired by the great biblical matriarch Rachel that wards off misfortune brought about by an “evil eye” and/or “birth parent” available at Target. …OF THE DAY | Best Week Ever
Even so, his words and evidence have been discredited in ways which make the public feel he might be responsible for his own misfortunes.
Part of its misfortune is due to Hewlett-Packard Co., which is down more than 18% so far this year and recently was about 4.6% of the Dodge & Cox fund's portfolio. Tax-Saving Trades
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
We had the misfortune to run into a violent storm.
I have the misfortune through my job to have to travel that road several times a day.
I have to say that without a shred of doubt you are the biggest most unpleasant bitch it has ever been my misfortune to run across.
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It was his misfortune that what were admirable qualities in a scholar and pastor were defects in a reluctant politician.
Co. is expected to prey on the misfortunes of other retailers to boost its stock price, analysts said.
He is a character from parable, and his undeserved catalogue of dire misfortunes presents one of the great theological problems. Times, Sunday Times
My family and I had the misfortune of being stuff in Amarillo for a half day some years back during a car repair. Think Progress » Christian Hate Group ‘Repent Amarillo’ Terrorizes Texas Town, Harassing Gays, Liberals, And Other ‘Sinners’
He wanted to assuage her desperation as keenly, almost, as he wanted to atone to Nuala for the misfortune which had befallen her. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty.
This paper examines Bedouin attitudes and practices relating to the evil eye as a cause of misfortune.
Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
'_I_ know how these unforetold misfortunes happen. The Magic City
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).
Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
What language is adequate to depicture the goodness and the fortitude of that heart which dared to contend alone, against the chilling repukes of a frozen-hearted world and the strong arm of misfortune? "The Life and Character of John Howard," Senior Speech of Richard T. Weaver, April 1846
If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if she is not emotional, she needs reason; if she is not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly. coz only she has is misfortune.
To lose one captaincy may be regarded as misfortune. Times, Sunday Times
He served me as a kind of gazette of all that passed with the princesses, in whose opinion I had still the misfortune not to be in the very highest estimation. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
It's unfair to take advantage of other people's misfortunes.
He felt deeply the tragedies of the Palestinian people and their historic misfortunes.
Consequently, you get an evening of light, frothy entertainment as you revel in the filthy deeds the schemers get up to and share their delight at the misfortune of others.
On a heli-boarding day we would already be stomping around cursing our misfortune. Times, Sunday Times
The old king was now left with no other companion than the poor fool, who still abided with him, with his merry conceits striving to outjest misfortune, saying it was but a naughty night to swim in, and truly the king had better go in and ask his daughter's blessing: Tales from Shakespeare
Here's hoping, that, someday in the not too distant future, the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never more in real life.
People who use investment strategies that involve cheating or preying on the misfortunes of others are crooks.
But the mother looked mournfully upon him, and wished he had not come, and could not believe that a life which commenced so untowardly would ever be anything better than a burden to her, and a misfortune and misery to himself. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters

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