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misadventure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misadventure \Mis`ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OE. mesaventure, F.
m['e]saventure.]
Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill
adventure.
--Chaucer.
Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when
a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of
injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also
excusable homicide. See Homicide.
--Blackstone.
Syn: Mischance; mishap; misfortune; disaster; calamity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A misadventure or accident is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance.
Misadventure may also refer to:
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures, a 2005 video game
- The formal term for medical error in surgery or other fields of medicine
- Death by misadventure, an inquest verdict
- Misadventure, a 2010 noir novel by Millard Kaufman
- Misadventures (Such Gold album), a 2012 album by Such Gold
- Misadventures (Pierce the Veil album), a 2016 album by Pierce the Veil
Usage examples of "misadventure".
If I had not promised to dine with Binetti the next day I should have posted off forthwith, and I should thus have escaped all the misadventures which befell me in that wretched town.
He amused me by the story of his misadventures since he had left Warsaw.
I should have done something to thwart this entire misadventure, but I thought Harad was on the case.
Having to inform Father Balbi of this fatal misadventure, I wrote to him during the night, and being obliged to do so more than once, I got accustomed to write correctly enough in the dark.
I can assure you that Le Duc has only spoken to me of his misadventure, and that if you treat him well he will be discreet, as he certainly has nothing to boast of.
On leaving him, I called on Therese and informed her of my misadventure of the night before.
The firm that he worked for saw fit to send him one day on a prosaic business errand to the far city of Vienna, and, having sent him there, continued to keep him there, still engaged in humdrum affairs of commerce, but with the possibilities of romance and adventure, or even misadventure, jostling at his elbow.
I would have thought your little misadventure on the expressway would have wised you up enough to keep you out of the business, but no.
So if you met with a misadventure along the way, and if no one hears from you in Nha Trang or Hue or at the Metropole in Hanoi, your embassy and the police can join in making inquiries.
Not a single one proved a winning number, but the popular belief that numbers given by a man before he commits suicide are infallible is too deeply rooted among the Neapolitans to be destroyed by such a misadventure.
The Gardars smiled and looked proudly at their young queen when he described the way she saved them at Trondheim, and many laughed aloud at the misadventures with Warth and the nykurs.
I foresee that it will raise some eyebrows, Folo, if you start claiming publicly to have heard disembodied voices in the Echo Pavilion, especially if you insist that you have heard the voice of a person known by all to be long defunct, and she a person slain in a misadventure of which you were the cause.
Sir Launcelot, Small worship gainest thou of conflict here, But haply misadventure.
Without apparent effort or management he drew from me the story of my ambitions and misadventures since leaving Wappinger Falls.
Not a single one proved a winning number, but the popular belief that numbers given by a man before he commits suicide are infallible is too deeply rooted among the Neapolitans to be destroyed by such a misadventure.