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unchancy

/uhn-chan-see, -chahn-/US // ʌnˈtʃæn si, -ˈtʃɑn- //UK // (ʌnˈtʃɑːnsɪ) //

遗憾,不愉快,遗憾的是,不愉快的事

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly Scot.

    • : unlucky.
    • : dangerous.

Examples

  • I pulled his head round away from the ghost, drew out a pistol, and watched the unchancy thing's movements.

  • Flight, instant and precipitate, was Darcy's one idea; flight forth from that unchancy car.

  • And it is precisely such unchancy happenings that make the scheme of things go wrong.

  • There was great glory and triumph in this; but why had his grace come at so unchancy a moment?

  • I would fain not run the risk, for folk say that he is an unchancy creature.