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Definition of Ill-fated
1. Adjective. Marked by or promising bad fortune. "The unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"
Definition of Ill-fated
1. Adjective. Unlucky; doomed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-fated
Literary usage of Ill-fated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... —Stone Calfs Daughter — The Flower of the Wigwam — An ill-fated Journey —Concealed
in a Thicket — Threatened with Instant Death—Escape to a Friendly ..."
2. Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katharine Coman (1912)
"... ill-fated Enterprise. — Meantime great changes had been taking place along
the Espiritu Santo, the region that Castaneda had thought a waste of bogs. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Herbert's poems, Latin and English, are of small value. til Buckingham's ill-fated
expedition in 1627. ..."
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