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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.
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