"unfortunate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

unfortunate adjetivo

unfortunate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 104
unfortunate accident • unfortunate incident • unfortunate event • unfortunate situation • unfortunate effect • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 22
(4) man, woman, girl, gentleman
Kolokacji: 4
(6) decision, choice, conclusion
Kolokacji: 3
(8) tendency, trend, reputation
Kolokacji: 3
(9) fact, reality, truth
Kolokacji: 3
(10) death, demise, end
Kolokacji: 3
(13) affair, occasion
Kolokacji: 2
(14) timing, time, moment, history
Kolokacji: 4
(15) aspect, distinction, trait
Kolokacji: 3
(17) example, precedent, exception
Kolokacji: 3
(18) fate, luck
Kolokacji: 2
(19) combination, one, confluence
Kolokacji: 3
(22) metaphor, irony
Kolokacji: 2
1. unfortunate metaphor = metafora nieszczęśnika unfortunate metaphor
2. unfortunate irony = ironia nieszczęśnika unfortunate irony
  • "Here, the community supports saving this structure and it would be an unfortunate irony if it were to be razed."
  • It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
  • They happen to be the crucial words and concepts of American liberalism, and therein lies a neglected story - and an unfortunate irony.
  • Some professors at the horticulture center here in Seattle said they found a particularly unfortunate irony in the damage.
  • "The unfortunate irony is that drugs heavily promoted as correcting unproven biochemical imbalances may be, in fact, causing imbalances and brain damage," he asserts.
  • The unfortunate irony for field staff, however, is that immediate changes in water quality are almost certainly changes for the worse which follow a major pollution incident.
  • The President demonstrated an unfortunate irony: a panel conceived to help Americans accommodate diversity has itself become an illustration of the problem.
  • To the Editor: I am obligated to point out the unfortunate irony of your statement that ". . . every reform seems to threaten some hitherto unnoticed prerogative.
  • But the sale, whose completion was announced Wednesday, has been attended by some unfortunate ironies.
  • It was an unfortunate irony.
adverbio + unfortunate
Kolokacji: 9
most unfortunate • particularly unfortunate • extremely unfortunate • especially unfortunate • doubly unfortunate • ...

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