'unhappy encounter' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this phrase to describe a situation in which two people have had a negative or unpleasant experience together. For example, "Their first encounter was an unhappy one, as they had different views on the subject."
President Obama flew into Afghanistan, and gave President Hamid Karzai a talking-to in what the Washington Post called "a brief, unhappy encounter".
He's no more suited to life in Los Angeles than Woody Allen was, when he had that unhappy encounter with some mashed yeast in a Sunset Strip café, in "Annie Hall".
It is instructive to compare this movie's Aron Ralston with Christopher McCandless, another real-life explorer whose unhappy encounter with the vast American wilderness was the subject of Sean Penn's "Into the Wild".
Covered as he was in skanky green fur, with Kabuki makeup turning his features vaguely feline, this Grinch brought to my mind an unhappy encounter with a road company of Cats in San Francisco I thought Id expunged from memory.
Nightmares and thoughts of suicide beset Hanna, and after yet another unhappy encounter with her enraged father, she flees into the night and eventually makes her way among the prostitutes of Montreal.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin March 29, 2010 President Obama flew into Afghanistan, and gave President Hamid Karzai a talking-to in what the Washington Post called "a brief, unhappy encounter".
And ultimately, both systems went into decline after unhappy encounters where?
Mr. Buffett's views on derivatives, gleaned from his own unhappy encounters with them, should be required reading for all United States taxpayers.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin October 27, 2011 There are many rich veins in Condoleezza Rice's new memoir — her unhappy encounters with Dick Cheney ("The Vice-President continued with a soliloquy that revealed his ex parte (from my point of view) conversations with the Israelis.
Reunion In this classic story, only four pages long, a son describes an unhappy lunch encounter with his father.
Among the soloists, Lenore Pavlakos looked vulnerable as a woman waltzing in and out of love; Tanya Wideman was gently playful in her allegros; Caroline Rocher was mysterious as what might have been an angelic guide; and Donald Williams and James Washington partnered the women in brief and unhappy romantic encounters.
