Examples of misadventure in a Sentence
His vacation turned into a series of misadventures.
a string of financial misadventures eventually left him broke
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Maybe these movies—as well as a TV show like Lena Dunham’s comic misadventure Too Much—seek to grant us some relief from the pursuit of romantic perfection.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
The show focuses on teaching pre-school children the concept of opposites through the misadventures of two fish best friends (one is red and the other is blue, of course).
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 26 Aug. 2025
The preschool series follows the adventures (and misadventures) of best friends (and super-geniuses) Tony Stark, Riri Williams and Amadeus Cho.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Aug. 2025
Another possibility is that hominins living on the coast of mainland Southeast Asia could have been swept out to sea by a tsunami, and some of them could have been lucky enough to survive the misadventure and wash ashore someplace like Sulawesi, Flores, or Luzon (RIP to any others).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
The show focuses on teaching pre-school children the concept of opposites through the misadventures of two fish best friends (one is red and the other is blue, of course).
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 26 Aug. 2025
The preschool series follows the adventures (and misadventures) of best friends (and super-geniuses) Tony Stark, Riri Williams and Amadeus Cho.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Aug. 2025
Another possibility is that hominins living on the coast of mainland Southeast Asia could have been swept out to sea by a tsunami, and some of them could have been lucky enough to survive the misadventure and wash ashore someplace like Sulawesi, Flores, or Luzon (RIP to any others).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Misadventure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misadventure. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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misadventure
noun
mis·ad·ven·ture
ˌmis-əd-ˈven-chər 
Legal Definition
misadventure
noun
mis·ad·ven·ture
ˌmi-səd-ˈven-chər
: an accident that causes serious injury or death to a person and that does not involve negligence, wrongful purpose, or unlawful conduct
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