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词汇 ill-starred
释义 ill-starred
adjective[ before noun ]
 literaryuk /ˌɪlˈstɑːd/ us /ˌɪlˈstɑːrd/(alsoill-omened)
→ ill-fated(同 ill-fated)
Synonyms
doomed
unlucky
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

resulting in bad things happening by chance
unluckyAn unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team.
unfortunateNo one was to blame - it was just an unfortunate accident.
ill-fatedSeven crew members were killed on the ill-fated voyage.
ill-starredHis ill-starred reign began with a famine and ended with civil war.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fate and destiny
align
break
Damocles
destined
destiny
fatalism
fate
fated
ill-fated
in the lap of the godsidiom
jinxed
lap
lightning
predestination
predestined
preordain
providence
providential
sword of Damoclesidiom
written in the starsidiom

Examples of ill-starred


ill-starred
Yet this extraordinary cultural encounter was ill-starred.
There is the gross inflation of capital due to these ill-starred promotions.
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That ill-starred document seems to be more elastic than even the framers originally intended.
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I believe that our governments would do well to revoke this ill-starred agreement.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Will he not, therefore, stop flirting with this ill-starred idea?
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There are two particular causes which have come together in an ill-starred conjunction.
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All have been ill-starred, but all have been faithful and sincere.
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This ill-starred experiment has caused immense injury both to our harassed finances and our creative energy.
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Is he aware that there is still a small number of us who see nothing in this ill-starred project but financial, ecological and, finally, physical disaster?
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The bits of it which devolve powers are minor and cosmetic, but centralisation is the key, because the key does lie in these ill-starred financial clauses.
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During the year 1843 the air was full of different conspiracies and various other ill-starred attempts at nationalist uprisings were made.
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He described to be very harsh and was called as ill-starred idealist.
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