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- noun Plural form of
unfortunate .
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Examples
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But helping these poor prog unfortunates is truly a valuable public service – but can you imagine how miserable they must be with that much jealousy and envy in their hearts???
Think Progress » U.S. Image Among Lebanese Plummets 30 Points 2006
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We are continuously lied to about the numbers and costs for these unfortunates, that is a massive strain on Americans economy and the taxpayer who foots the bill.
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In mind she recalled the titled unfortunates who had
Barriers Burned Away Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Poetry is your designed high for those "unfortunates" who lack a rich supply of words.
Archive 2007-09-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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Poetry is your designed high for those "unfortunates" who lack a rich supply of words.
[zany life + crazy faith] Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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And the chief reason is that these "unfortunates," as they are called, get into the habit of being carried when they should walk on their own feet.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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Prostitution thrives, nevertheless; but numbers do not discourage the moralist, and when he reads in the newspapers of degraded females, "unfortunates," he breathes a sigh; and if these reports contain descriptions of miserable circumstance and human grief, he mutters "how very sad!"
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Chinese town we see a far less number of "unfortunates" than among our own highly civilised communities.
Historic China, and other sketches Herbert Allen Giles 1890
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Two physicians of Irkutsk were 'unfortunates' from
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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The inhalation of the dust of the grind-stone and the steel is so pernicious to their health, that they rarely average the age of thirty-five; yet these "unfortunates" are said to be opposed to the use of the dust flue, regarding with jealousy whatever increases longevity, since life is full only of sorrow and evil to them.
Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862
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