unfortunate knack
Frequency: 4.82.5 per million words
An unlucky tendency to do something undesirable.
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- He had the unfortunate knack of making enemies in the party.
- She developed an unfortunate knack for saying the wrong thing at the worst possible moment.
- My boss has an unfortunate knack for remembering all my past mistakes.
- The team seems to have an unfortunate knack of losing games in the final minutes.
- Despite his intelligence, he possessed an unfortunate knack for misplacing important documents.
- The new software has an unfortunate knack of crashing whenever I save my work.
- It's an unfortunate knack to always arrive late, no matter how early you start.
- This restaurant has an unfortunate knack for running out of popular dishes.
- She discovered an unfortunate knack for attracting bad luck wherever she went.
- He has the unfortunate knack of always interrupting people during important conversations.