lucklessluck‧less /ˈlʌkləs/ adjective literary - William Holden stars as a luckless scriptwriter in "Sunset Boulevard."
- Adding insult to injury, a double cross awaits our luckless hero in the final stanza.
- At about this point, it seemed it was the audience who needed to be rescued, not the luckless motorists.
- But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather, at the luckless Rubberneck.
- It was no more than Wanderers deserved after a luckless opening.
- Just as this realisation dawned, a luckless couple drew into the parking space to read a map.
- Keen Hunter was second and luckless Elbio third.
- The story presents a picture of the luckless, homeless skinhead which corresponds closely to the movement's own mythology about itself.
adjectivelucky ≠ unluckylucklessnounluckadverbluckily ≠ unluckily