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ill-starred
[ il-stahrd ]
adjective
- doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky:
an ill-starred enterprise.
- disastrous:
an ill-starred marriage.
ill-starred
adjective
- unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ill-starred1
Example Sentences
But what tilts this ill-starred production into epic disaster is the backstage drama that breaks out when romantic jealousy spreads throughout the company.
The last time such personal televised revelations came from a senior royal was Princess Diana’s ill-starred BBC “Panorama” interview.
There are portents aplenty packed into the hold of the ill-starred ship of the title in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.”
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.
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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