misfortune

misfortune
mis‧for‧tune /mɪsˈfɔːtʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun [uncountable and countable]very bad luck, or something that happens to you as a result of bad luck:
    It seems the banks always profit from farmers’ misfortunes.
    have the misfortune to do/of doing something
    The French soldiers had the misfortune to be caught in the crossfire.
     

COLLOCATIONS

■ verbs
   ▪ suffer misfortune You are not the only person to have suffered misfortune in your life.
   ▪ be dogged by misfortune (=have a lot of bad luck over a period of time) The project seemed dogged by misfortune.
■ adjectives
   ▪ a great misfortune Everything they owned was lost in the fire, which was a great misfortune.
   ▪ a terrible misfortune At that time, being thin was considered a terrible misfortune for women.
■ phrases
   ▪ have the misfortune to do something/of doing something Last year, he had the misfortune to be involved in a car crash.
   ▪ have ever had the misfortune to do/of doing (=used for emphasizing how bad something is) He was the most arrogant man I'd ever had the misfortune of meeting.