as in unfortunate
having, prone to, or marked by bad luck
the ill-fated trip ended in disaster for all
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Recent Examples of ill-fated
So, where will Season 2 take us, Mayor Tom Loftis, and the rest of this wonderfully funny and spectacularly ill-fated island community?
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
11 June 2026
What the Pentagon Papers revealed is that the American government had reason to know all along that the venture was ill-fated.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
The series then retreats to 2019 to trace the circumstances that led to these killings, building toward the inevitability of Maggie and Paul’s death and filtering the whole family through a lens of catastrophe, where every member is either ill-fated or devious.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Jeffrey, a divorced former Army Ranger, embarks on a sudden and inevitably ill-fated life of crime to help provide for his kids.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
That plan proved ill-fated, however, when he got caught trying to bribe a city official.
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Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
30 July 2025
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
11 June 2026
What the Pentagon Papers revealed is that the American government had reason to know all along that the venture was ill-fated.
—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
The series then retreats to 2019 to trace the circumstances that led to these killings, building toward the inevitability of Maggie and Paul’s death and filtering the whole family through a lens of catastrophe, where every member is either ill-fated or devious.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Jeffrey, a divorced former Army Ranger, embarks on a sudden and inevitably ill-fated life of crime to help provide for his kids.
—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
That plan proved ill-fated, however, when he got caught trying to bribe a city official.
—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
30 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-fated
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As attendees were escorted out of the Great American State Fair on Sunday because of inclement weather, guests noticed an unfortunate typo displayed on a digital billboard at the National Mall.
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They should be trained not to ask a bunch of questions about the medical condition, express doubt, comment that the timing is unfortunate or share private information with co-workers.
Adjective
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The decade was an unhappy panorama of inflation, gas shortages, military humiliation, and revelations of political corruption.
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On Tuesday, Paul urged Americans who are unhappy with the justices’ ruling to support his proposal.
Adjective
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The loss of experience and military brainpower had disastrous consequences, especially in Russian lives lost, during the Winter War against Finland and the early stages of World War II against Nazi Germany.
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Some prominent Democrats are warning that Mamdani’s success could spell doom for their party in November, arguing that what works in New York City would be disastrous in the heartland.
Adjective
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Rather than trying to get past security and plant malware on your system, phishing sites do their best to trick you, the hapless user, into giving away your credentials.
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Japan scored twice in each half and kept a hapless Tunisia down to a shot apiece either side of the break.
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The one in which his tiny team of negotiators surrendered to the radicals ruling that luckless nation.
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Any one of those locations could have allowed the heat of reentry to burn through the aluminum alloy walls of the spacecraft, killing any luckless crew that may have been inside, in much the kind of reentry breakup that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven-person crew in 2003.
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