luckless

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of luckless Vasyanovych plays Roman, a luckless director who’s out of work and trying to shoot his latest film in a country whose dwindling population is still traumatized by the war. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for luckless
Adjective
  • Therefore, there are some unfortunate parallels between young Gen Z needing to sacrifice wages due to wavering job opportunities and millennials graduating into the Great Recession.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In today's volatile business climate, layoffs have become an unfortunate reality across industries.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • My research team works hard to keep the email addresses up to date, but executives keep changing their addresses to avoid having to deal with unhappy customers.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But few seemed to leave unhappy.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Now the Patriots will play what appears to be a hapless Dolphins crew.
    Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Forty years after Spinal Tap, history’s most hapless band turns it up to 11 one last time.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Luckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luckless. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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