unfortunate habit

collocation in English

meaningsofunfortunateandhabit

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unfortunate
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us
/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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habit
noun
uk
/ˈhæb.ɪt/us
/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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(Definition ofunfortunateandhabitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, it has oneunfortunatehabit.
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The reason for this tacit assumption is the usual human weakness : we have anunfortunatehabitof trying to impose our current human perspectives on the physical universe.
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Temporary subsidies have anunfortunatehabitin this country of becoming permanent ones.
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Take the case of a child suffering from theunfortunatehabitof bed-wetting.
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I have theunfortunatehabiton those occasions of writing shorthand and taking notes.
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I had theunfortunatehabitof reading in bed with an electric lamp at my side.
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Some of them have developed thisunfortunatehabitby reason of unemployment and absence of opportunity of education and training.
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As we know, this is a matter which has anunfortunatehabitof not receding into limbo.
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We would not take so much notice of his demands if he did not have a mostunfortunatehabitof achieving them.
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He has theunfortunatehabitthat when confronted with a difficulty he runs away from it and tries to dodge it in every way.
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Does he share my concern about the fact that, in such instances, the medical profession has anunfortunatehabitof closing ranks?
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In the same way, we have anunfortunatehabitof inventing social trappings about any conceivable educational device which we may put up.
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The necessity for the limitation of the use of this remedy arises out of theunfortunatehabitof micro-organisms of learning by experience.
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The metal has theunfortunatehabitof producing a fine dust, causing problems with radiation protection.
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I have doubts and difficulties in regard to the operation of these sumptuary laws, for the laws of political economy have a veryunfortunatehabitof reasserting themselves.
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She also had anunfortunatehabitof marrying conmen, bigamists or men who died shortly after their wedding.
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We have all suffered under him from time to time: we have suffered because of hisunfortunatehabitof getting the facts right, which is so embarrassing to us all.
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Somsong also has theunfortunatehabitof shedding her clothes and running naked in public, or simply lifting her dress and exposing herself.
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By the 1980s the locomotives and rolling stock had anunfortunatehabitof camouflaging into the scenery and causing accidents at railroad crossings.
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