NOUN
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an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all - an instance of misfortune
How To Use mischance In A Sentence
- His rise coincides with Tom's life falling apart - his wife leaves him, and by mischance he becomes prime suspect in a horrific crime - and their stories intersect.
- By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
- They encounter a ship in a lonely solar system, but through a freak mischance, are bonded to the other ship on a path towards the system's star. REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen
- These are the folks who, either by accident of birth or mischance, are sufficiently different from the rest of us to attract attention.
- If, by dire mischance, a mishap occurs, we can forget this entire conversation.
- By some mischance, the false bottom of the bag had become dislodged in the fall. CONFESSIONAL
- When I came back to thinking about horseracing 30 years later, it was by means of a horse who had avoided all those tragic mischances.
- As he points out, the abnormalities we see here are not the result of heredity or some other mischance.
- Bravery, mischance, well-trained American units, poorly trained Iraqi units, superior coalition leadership, and superior technology are all part of the calculus that made up what appeared to the world as an easy 100-hour rout.
- A thousand different accidents and mischances could happen to divert me on the way.