His vacation turned into a series of misadventures.
a string of financial misadventures eventually left him broke
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His credulity led to misadventures the details of which are so picayune that Chernow’s emphasis on them can be maddening.—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025 A good number of laughs, many of them from a commanding Salma Hayek as herself, carry an episode that ultimately gets lost in a meta-structural hall of mirrors reducing real concerns into a multiverse misadventure.—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025 Seema, the eldest daughter, settles in Beverly Hills and dies shortly before younger sister Shirin’s misadventure in Aspen.—Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2025 Image ‘Death of a Unicorn’ On the drive to his boss’s mansion, Elliot (Paul Rudd) hits and nearly kills a unicorn, leading to madcap misadventures in this horror-comedy directed by Alex Scharfman.—The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misadventure
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Etymology
Middle English mesaventure, from Anglo-French, from mesavenir to turn out badly, from mes- mis- + avenir to happen, from Latin advenire — more at adventure
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