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ill-starred

[ il-stahrd ]

adjective

  1. doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky:

    an ill-starred enterprise.

  2. disastrous:

    an ill-starred marriage.



ill-starred

adjective

  1. unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ill-starred1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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But what tilts this ill-starred production into epic disaster is the backstage drama that breaks out when romantic jealousy spreads throughout the company.

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The last time such personal televised revelations came from a senior royal was Princess Diana’s ill-starred BBC “Panorama” interview.

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There are portents aplenty packed into the hold of the ill-starred ship of the title in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.”

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Apollo, Sixth Street and Warburg Pincus are reportedly among the bidders for GreenSky, the specialty lender that Goldman Sachs bought as part of its ill-starred foray into consumer finance.

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And he’s currently flexing his tragicomic muscles in “Welcome to Chippendales,” a Hulu limited series based on the surprisingly ill-starred history of the male strip revue that became a cultural sensation in the 1980s.

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