The phrase "a pretty unfortunate" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation or event that is regrettable or unlucky, but it requires a noun to follow it for clarity.
Example: "It was a pretty unfortunate incident that caused a lot of confusion."
Alternatives: "quite unfortunate" or "rather unfortunate".
As it turned out, it was a pretty unfortunate thing to say.
Ms. Ketterer warns that the precarious state of government finances, across the developed world and especially in Europe, could result in "a pretty unfortunate future of deleveraging and slow growth".
I did a course on racial representation in media when I was in college, and it was a pretty unfortunate, dismal portrayal in the data collection we had at the end of the day, and I'm really grateful to be in a show where humanity is pursued before any of that stuff".
(This might be a good moment to remember that the ideas that Zuckerberg has lived since he was a child also led him, while at Harvard, to create Facebook's predecessor, the "Hot or Not?"-type Web site FaceMash — a pretty unfortunate way of helping his fellow-students "connect").
Lars said that is a "pretty unfortunate way to treat the public, whether by design or not: after 6 minutes of waiting on hold and hearing 2 different recorded messages from Schumer himself (which at least is an attempt to show interest in what callers have to say), I got several rings and then was disconnected".
"That's pretty unfortunate that a guy who doesn't have any idea who I am or anything about me would say something that silly," Edmonds said.
"But it is a form of body shaming, I will say that, and it's pretty unfortunate....We live in a society that is so obsessed with being perfect … why can't we just be us?" Mowry also sounded off of the disparaging Instagram comments she receives about her weight, and she said the negativity towards certain body shapes "needs to stop".
Ignoring the shower bun for a second, this onesie is still pretty unfortunate.
You've come to expect some pretty unfortunate creatures on her arm: a blind burn victim, a geriatric, or a married employer.
However, one of the sophomores in the fraternity, Charles M. Annis '61 "came on his bike from MIT and saw what we were doing, which was pretty unfortunate," said Smoot in a recent interview.
Which is — Ms. Lukesh: — pretty unfortunate because we'd like to think of it as all antiques, but it is not.
