(superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
(superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The lucky ones are studying, the others are like me," he said.
(2) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(3) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(4) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(5) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(6) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(7) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(8) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(9) Next they are lucky if they can obtain an appointment before the boil bursts.
(10) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(11) Start your exploring at Bearreraig Bay, where, if you are lucky, you may find belemnites, ammonites and bivalves.
(12) ), and yes I have benefited from major label marketing budgets, so I am definitely one of the lucky ones.
(13) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(14) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
(15) If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.
(16) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(17) I suppose I was lucky compared to many kids in today’s care system.
(18) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(19) We all know someone who has had a baby, broken an arm or has been seriously ill. Do we consider enough how lucky we are to see our GP for free?
(20) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
Mucky
Definition:
(a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
(a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
Example Sentences:
(1) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
(2) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(3) Then, the water had been clear and clean, not mucky as it is now full of floating debris and sometimes choked with weeds.
(4) I always hear heartier laughs, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs.
(5) 'I always hear heartier laughs up north, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs' … Lucy Beaumont.
(6) Some of it is even shot in the participants' own kitchens, so there's an awful lot of clutter and mucky sponges you really don't need to see.
(7) Let's assume, entirely hypothetically, that someone steals a laptop containing mucky candid photographs of Rodney Bewes and tries to flog them to the tabloids.
(8) Who knows where tourism tourism will stand, once this mucky debate is over?)
(9) Carol Roe, Dhu’s grandmother, felt the lump as well, and said it was “very mucky, like dried blood”.
(10) Gore then embarked on a crusade against all things mucky in pop, founding the Parents Music Resource in 1985, the pressure group whose lobbying resulted in warning stickers plastered on the front of offending CDs.
(11) I've come to talk to her about her latest collection, Memorial , and she picks me up from Totnes station, a calm and formal figure in a singularly mucky blue car.
(12) So we seem to be back to the era of the "arty European film" being code for "a bit mucky".
(13) We have ancient, mucky trains; frequent breakdowns; no possibility of a direct train to Glasgow or Bristol.
(14) This is largely due to what she wears before the action kicks in and she gets all mucky trying to save people from dinosaurs.
(15) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(16) Imagine surviving napalm burns to a third of your body, when most victims with even 10% perish, and getting to the age of 53 without realising that you’d been involved in a mucky snap all along.
(17) For now, at least, it's a relaxing, albeit mucky, attraction for visitors to Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.