Definition of Unfortunate

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Definition of Unfortunate
	Unfortunate Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. An unfortunate person. Related Definitions: Adventure, An, As, Attended, Business, Commander, Fortunate, Man, Misfortune, Not, Person, Prosperous, Unfortunate, Unhappy, Unlucky, Unsuccessful, With

Unfortunate Quotations

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise Pascal

I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy

Unfortunate Translations

unfortunate in Dutch is ongelukkige
unfortunate in Latin is miser, infortunatus
unfortunate in Portuguese is infeliz
unfortunate in Spanish is infortunado
unfortunate in Swedish is olycklig, beklaglig

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