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Ill-starred

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

    ""Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?""

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by or promising bad fortune wordnet

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