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an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; or bad luck- We tripped while roller skating, but survived to laugh at the mishap.
- I sometimes thought of asking her if she would let me sit at the big table with the rest of them just once, I would prove to her how civilized I could be; after all, I ate at home every day with no major mishaps.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- No other ship mishap reported in area on that day, so ship-ship collision unlikely.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- And Severus, be very careful, they may not take kindly to your appearance after George Weasley's mishap — " Snape turned at the door.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Some mishap had left one leg stiff.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- THAT LITTLE MISHAP GOT ME IN A BIT OF TROUBLE AT home.Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
- That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Were all Helen's actions to be governed by a tiny mishap, such as may happen to any young man or woman?E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- But going straight, without mishap or losing our way, we shall take three or four marches, I expect.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
- I just wish we'd have one little mishap.Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
- I'm very sorry to hear about your mishap, but I hope you're not too put out to be spending the night here in Moscombe.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- He was laughing at the Filipino; and all the time, out of the whole room, perhaps, only he knew how excruciating this small mishap probably was.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- Perhaps their financial mishap has driven them to seek solace in alcohol and daytime television.Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- This was a discordant note in the harmony of the house, which they had managed to overlook without mishap.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- Our travellers having remounted their horses, arrived in town without encountering any new mishap.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- He was laughing at the Filipino; and all the time, out of the whole room, perhaps, only he knew how excruciating this small mishap probably was.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- I was afraid afterwards that you might have met with any mishap?Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Everybody warned me, in some way, and I even thought of Eleanor Klein and what Jimmy had told me of her being rooked there in Mexico, and her mishaps.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
mishaps = bad things happening