Definitions

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  • adverb In a bad fated, foreordained or predetermined manner; in a way established in advance by bad fate.

Etymologies

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From ill- +‎ fatedly.

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Examples

  • Connery is brought out of the depths of the prison system to help a quirkily brilliant FBI chemist played by quirky Nicolas Cage and an ill-fatedly macho Navy Seal team to break into Alcatraz and stop the threat.

    William Bradley: Transformative: Le Cinema de Michael Bay 2009

  • Clearly, ours is what Socrates condemned as the unexamined life — and our political, religious and economic institutions are ill-fatedly designed to ensure that things stay that way.

    Ultimate Reality CHeck 2008

  • He had not yet been born on the occasion of the last Search, the one that ill-fatedly provided the incompetent Jora.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • The lover, beholding that fusing move as a golden-hued goddess, accessible, kindly and priceless, wooes and ill-fatedly wins all the substance.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Lord Lamont, Secretary of the Treasury when Britain ill-fatedly joined the European

    On Line Opinion - Latest Articles editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sally McNamara 2010

  • Oh wretched woman, that wilt at one stroke have lost the youth so ill-fatedly beloved and thine own honour! '

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

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