"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
  • Invasional meltdown six years later: important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both?
  • It was an unfortunate metaphor to use, because Santorum has been engaged in a long and losing war with the Internet largely because of dogs.
  • Despite some exquisite individual lines, the rubbish piling up on the stage becomes an unfortunate metaphor for an overstuffed story told with waning conviction.
  • That unfortunate metaphor sprang to mind last Thursday when a pack of formerly bullish stock analysts suddenly cooled on the shares of Amazon.com.
  • This was a most unfortunate metaphor, and each man backed away from it.
  • "Guerrilla filmmaking," the term applied to Mr. Rodriguez's feat, seems like an unfortunate metaphor now that actual guerrillas are making films.
  • This brings us back to Mr. Samadi's unfortunate metaphor.
  • (The sawmill's way of cutting logs may be an unfortunate metaphor.)
2. unfortunate irony = ironia nieszczęśnika unfortunate irony
adverbio + unfortunate
Kolokacji: 9
most unfortunate • particularly unfortunate • extremely unfortunate • especially unfortunate • doubly unfortunate • ...

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