What's the difference between luckless and unlucky?
Luckless
Definition:
(a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know a little about the jellyfishes of Australia because when I worked there for the Guardian, poisonous species such as the box jellyfish would occasionally kill a luckless swimmer off the tropical north coast.
(2) Craig is quite winning as the intense, luckless and perhaps in some ways wicked Hughes: Paltrow is Paltrow.
(3) That was the striker’s 11th league goal of a season that he began with a long luckless streak.
(4) !” A female singer who overdid the sexiness was automatically a “foxtress”, and a rock star who overplayed the social conscience bit – usually the luckless Weller again – was addressing “ver kidz”.
(5) Jovetic's luckless run with injuries has badly disrupted his first season in English football but here was the evidence that the £22.9m signing from Fiorentina can still play a considerable part.
(6) Carrick is elegant enough to fit into Spain’s midfield but his luckless run of injuries continues.
(7) There's a chihuahua scowling in a cape, a golden retriever Fenton-ing after a luckless terrier and a lurcher that looks like a retired academic.
(8) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.
(9) If it can sometimes seem that Polanski's sadism towards his characters is being pursued for its own amusement and in isolation from their mistreatment at the hands of their fellow man – at one point, Trelkovsky steps in dog shit, just as other characters walk into doors – then this is because he likes to show the world conspiring against the luckless.
(10) The revolution certainly has not taken off as people might have anticipated but City should feel better for this victory even if it was tempered by another terrible blow for the luckless Ilkay Gündogan.
(11) National statutes, UN protocols and who knows how many luckless souls bolted up in cells round the world affirm that the old prohibitionist order has not collapsed.
(12) This is what it looks like when processes are changed in a panic: not just a bunch of arrogant scofflaws, astonished to find society finally standing up to them; but also a luckless brigade, dealt yet more terrible luck, serving more time on remand than they would ever normally be sentenced to on conviction.
(13) Billed as Disney's revisionist version of Sleeping Beauty, this live action spectacular features Angelina Jolie as the "mistress of all evil" and Elle Fanning as luckless Princess Aurora.
(14) His love of football came in handy for Another Sunday And Sweet FA (1972), an unruly clash between rival local teams as experienced by the luckless referee.
(15) Hugo's story of injustice has been filmed several times in the US and the story of Javert pursuing the luckless Valjean has been recreated in several forms in American settings, most famously in the long-running TV series The Fugitive and the big-screen version starring Harrison Ford.
(16) But behind the bold words lay the wreckage of her recently, incorrigibly luckless life: the apparent suicide of her lover Michael Hutchence in a Sydney hotel room, the revelation that former Opportunity Knocks presenter Hughie Green was her father, a vicious and protracted custody battle with her ex-husband Bob Geldof.
(17) Ali takes care of his two canaries (replacements for the luckless cockatiel), or walks in the forest with his uncle.
(18) Meanwhile, another company was involved in sourcing workers for CPUK, scouting around the country for unemployed people so luckless that standing underneath London Bridge at 3am was considered better for their morale than being asleep.
(19) The forward had been industrious but largely luckless up to this point and his hat-trick was reward for months of endeavour and, potentially, a springboard to another prolific run.
(20) In Shanghai, meanwhile, the luckless citizens who chose to invest their hard-earned cash in shares are learning the hard lesson – often forgotten even by the world’s most seasoned investors – that markets can go down as well as up.
Unlucky
Definition:
(a.) Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
(a.) Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
(a.) Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(2) Hull were not exactly unlucky, they simply did not create enough from open play to deserve anything from the game, though Brady could hardly have come any closer to scoring.
(3) This weekend's games see Palermo engaged in a local derby with Messina, while Lazio host Sampdoria and Milan visit Chievo (whose hometown of Verona is regarded by Mialnisti as particularly unlucky).
(4) Although Speed had presided over five victories and five defeats in his 10 matches in charge of the principality, there were plenty of encouraging signs in Speed's stewardship, not least that four of the wins came in the past five games, with an unlucky 1-0 defeat by England at Wembley the only blemish.
(5) Yes, Khodorkovsky has been very unlucky in his fate, but we, his compatriots, have been unbelievably lucky: the party of human dignity is today embodied by an individual who conducts himself in a model fashion and does not bend or break under pressure.
(6) To cure Alzheimer’s, we first need to figure out why some of us are unlucky enough to get it.
(7) I’m nothing special, I’m just a nurse doing her job who got unlucky and caught a virus.
(8) There is nothing that anybody can do to pool their risk with the rest of the population, you just have to hope that you are not unlucky.
(9) Isaac Rosenberg's insignificant military career and unlucky end were sadly all too common in the first world war and would not be of any special interest had he not emerged as one of the most powerful poets of that war.
(10) She had a horrible taste in men, or was incredibly unlucky,” said Swingle.
(11) The Tories are likely to to face criticism for making those people unlucky enough to lose out in the lottery of serious illnesses in old age being penalised again by having all their assets above £100,000 being sequestrated by the state.
(12) The Argentinian playmaker picked up the loose ball and was unlucky to see his curling shot drift wide.
(13) I am one of the unlucky ones as my ancestors emigrated in the 19th century to Australia and eventually returned to Britain.
(14) Last season we were unlucky in the semi-finals and this season we would like to carry on the good work,” Cech said.
(15) While accepting Italy had been unlucky to be knocked out, Blatter urged restraint on the part of Italy's outraged team, officials and supporters, saying that not only the officials but their players had made decisive mistakes.
(16) If the worst part of the task will be whittling his initial 30 choices down to 23 and informing the unlucky seven, ask him what he is most anticipating and Hodgson is unequivocal: "I am looking forward to that first victory and I hope it is the first game so we are off and running."
(17) "I can say with my hand on my heart that it was not deliberate ... it was just my Norman Wisdom moment, just one of those unbelievably unlucky things that can sometimes happen.
(18) They ignore the poverty that exists for the children who are unlucky enough to live in areas labelled as “affluent” – they’re whitewashed as “having it all” thanks to the average local income.
(19) Even before lanes were finished some cyclists squeezed between fences to use them, an unlucky few crashing into barriers marking the end of completed sections while riding at night.
(20) Given we'd have to make claims for at least four unrelated repairs a year to end up spending that £186 saving in excess payments (and, surely, we'd have to be really unlucky to need that many again), going for the Flexi option looks very attractive.