The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
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Merriam-Webster
— an event or conjunction of events that causes an unfortunate or distressing result : bad luck
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Macmillan
— bad luck
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Collins
— A misfortune is something unpleasant or unlucky that happens to someone.
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Other Word Forms
misfortunes
Usage
1 use of ‘misfortune’ in A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle