unfortunate choice

collocation in English

meaningsofunfortunateandchoice

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unfortunate
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us
/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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choice
noun
uk
/tʃɔɪs/us
/tʃɔɪs/
an act or the possibility ...
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(Definition ofunfortunateandchoicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunfortunate choice

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For instance, anunfortunatechoiceof data structures may necessitate rewriting the whole program.
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I have argued that political liberalism is not faced with thisunfortunatechoice.
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That was anunfortunatechoice.
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That was, perhaps, anunfortunatechoice.
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That is anunfortunatechoiceof words.
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It is anunfortunatechoiceof words.
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You are going to leave him with thisunfortunatechoice.
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That is not the onlyunfortunatechoiceof words.
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Perhaps it is anunfortunatechoiceof term.
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He was there—and was a mostunfortunatechoice.
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I think it is a mostunfortunatechoiceof uniform in both cases.
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In view of our last debate, that would have been anunfortunatechoiceof words.
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I feel that this was a mostunfortunatechoiceof title.
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The very idea of it being a grant is anunfortunatechoiceof words.
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I feel that type of representative would be a veryunfortunatechoice.
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In some ways that was anunfortunatechoiceof words on his part.
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That was anunfortunatechoice, because that hymn records the inscrutability and omniscience which alone gives comfort to anybody.
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This was anunfortunatechoice, since the solution for the stream function amplitude for a = 0 does not vanish at y = 5 03 as required by his boundary condition (4).
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