What's the difference between disadventure and misadventure?

Disadventure


Definition:

  • (n.) Misfortune; mishap.

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Misadventure


Definition:

  • (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
  • (2) The addition of epidemiologic analysis of risk factors for therapeutic misadventure (iatrogenic and self-induced) and for health status specific long- and short-term adverse drug experience will contribute substantially to drug safety in the elderly.
  • (3) Studies conducted in the United States during the past two decades related to drug misadventuring have been inadequate.
  • (4) Sloane Crosley's books, although different in tone to those of Gould and Daum – she self-mockingly writes of her own comic misadventures in a manner heavily influenced by David Sedaris – share a similar aspiration.
  • (5) Is the song Mile High about narcotic misadventures or misdemeanours on an aircraft?
  • (6) An original MoD inquest was held in secret in 1953 and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
  • (7) This study seeks to increase awareness of poison center ability to assist in management of the "therapeutic misadventure".
  • (8) Mechanism of injury included knife or arrow penetrations (25), firearm wounds (12), falls (17), overexertion (5), and misadventures with hazards (40).
  • (9) Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury.
  • (10) Twenty-eight ovaries from normal children of the same age who died from misadventure served as control.
  • (11) Some local cases are cited to illustrate the difference between misadventure and negligence.
  • (12) Drug misadventuring is defined, applicable public policy issues are identified and analyzed, and recommendations are suggested for reducing the magnitude and scope of drug misadventuring.
  • (13) The patient's family supposed neglection and therapeutic misadventure and raised an objection to the medical treatment.
  • (14) In England and Wales, 13% of maternal deaths were related to anaesthetic misadventures, but the Japanese incidence is not known.
  • (15) It appears that post-prostatectomy incontinence is not always due to a surgical misadventure.
  • (16) Yet by claiming the intervention was mostly about rooting out terrorists, Cameron also ignores or misunderstands, and certainly diminishes, the few, possibly temporary nation-building achievements Britain can point to during its latest, sorry misadventure in Afghanistan.
  • (17) Therapeutic misadventures with both drugs have resulted in childhood fatalities.
  • (18) The probable causes of these deaths include prenatal physiological handicaps resulting from placental insufficiency, aberrant parent-offspring behaviour, management-induced mismothering, misadventure, inadequate milk supply or teat and udder abnormalities, and cold-induced starvation.
  • (19) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
  • (20) But it did not take a Gray diary - although a particularly brilliant one, Fat Chance (1995), did eventually materialise - for the off-stage shenanigans and misadventures surrounding Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates, to make the front pages.

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