unlucky
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Positif | unlucky |
Comparatif | unluckier |
Superlatif | unluckiest |
unlucky \ʌnˈlʌkɪ\
- Malheureux, fâcheux, malencontreux, malchanceux, qui porte malheur.
- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces. (The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling)
- Or, Tabaqui le savait aussi bien que personne, il n'y a rien de plus fâcheux que de louer des enfants à leur visage ;
"[…] It is very unlucky; but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now."
— (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais), Vol. 1, chapitre 2, 3e éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 8)
- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces. (The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling)
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- Sud de l'Angleterre (Royaume-Uni) : écouter « unlucky [Prononciation ?] »