Sentence examples for ill-starred from inspiring English sources

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ill-starred

adjective

Doomed to a bad fate; hapless

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The star last worked with Luhrmann in 1996, when he played another ill-starred lover in Romeo + Juliet.

The city felt ill-starred and unsure.

Such plans have an ill-starred pedigree.

There have been other ill-starred recommendations.

The company's technology foray has been similarly ill-starred.

One exception was the ill-starred Apollo 13 mission.

They are as hungry, poorly educated and diseased as the ill-starred people of Darfur.

But the ill-starred child grew up to be a cheerful, lovable, and successful man.

The ill-starred world tour in 2006 he now calls "horrible".

"That's IKB's table," commented one wag, referring to an ill-starred German bank.

Want to know the roots of the ill-starred Branch Davidians?

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