misfortune meaning
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WMisfortune
- Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales.
- Another telling of the tale appears under the title Unfortunate in A Book of Enchantments and Curses, by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
- NounPLmisfortunesPREmis-
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Whoopie Ti Yi Yo git along little dogies. It's your misfortune and none of my own.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?
- These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of misfortune in English Dictionary
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- en misfortuned
- en misfortunes
Source: Wiktionary