misadventure
Americannoun
noun
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an unlucky event; misfortune
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law accidental death not due to crime or negligence
Etymology
Origin of misadventure
1250–1300; mis- 1 + adventure; replacing Middle English mesaventure < Old French
Example Sentences
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“Every time we text about our teenage years, I’m amazed we survived,” someone else wrote, kicking off a flurry of reminiscences about our misadventures.
As he is being reminded, people won’t risk a repetition of these misadventures.
An inquest into the deaths was held at the end of 2017 and the jury found the family had drowned due to misadventure.
From BBC
Fortuitously, no injury was sustained by either the four-footed or two-footed victims of the misadventure.
From Literature
Senesh would become the most renowned of the group because she also wrote poetry, miraculously preserved amid her misadventures behind enemy lines.
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