unfortunate implications

collocation in English

meaningsofunfortunateandimplication

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unfortunate
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us
/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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implication
noun
uk
/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying ...
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(Definition ofunfortunateandimplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This would have unfortunate implications for sustainable agricultural development.
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Apart from the unfortunate implications which this carries of discrimination against students as a class, it would give rise to formidable practical difficulties.
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For many years lawyers have appreciated the unfortunate implications of these alleged "guarantees" from the buyer's point of view.
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It proceeds on a false premise, it proposes a bad cure and it contains unfortunate implications.
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So far as the perhaps unfortunate implications of the term "theatre" are concerned.
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Surely it is an argument which has unfortunate implications that every application should be resisted for fear it would lead to others.
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These have unfortunate implications in my constituency and for the area around.
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That sentence seems to contain two unfortunate implications.
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I ask why, after ten years, it is now felt necessary to alter this meaning in such a way that it could genuinely introduce some most unfortunate implications.
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