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bad luck
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Princeton's WordNet
misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
bad luck, mischance, mishapnoun
an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
"if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"
misfortune, bad lucknoun
unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event
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bad lucknoun
Misfortune.
Wikipedia
Bad Luck
Bad Luck and Trouble is the eleventh book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 2007, and written in the third person. The title is derived from the song lyrics by singer Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign".
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bad luck
Bad luck refers to unfavorable or adverse events, conditions, or outcomes that happen by chance, often with a negative impact on one's plans, goals, or life. These unfortunate circumstances are typically beyond one's control and not necessarily a result of one's own actions or decisions.
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Bad Luck
"Bad Luck" is a punk rock song and the second track from Social Distortion's fourth studio album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell which was released in 1992. It was the album's first single, and it peaked at number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, marking the highest initial charting single in Social Distortion's career. There has not been a higher charting Social Distortion single since.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bad luck in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bad luck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of bad luck in a Sentence
It was my first time in a strange track, so I went much faster than what was possible in one corner and I went out into the gravel, it was not a big crash, for sure, it was maybe a stupid crash, but I had bad luck and I was injured a lot in this stupid crash.
Here you have a young man who volunteers to go to war to help preserve the United States and United States opportunities, at the same time, he thinks he’s going to be a pilot but has the bad luck of not being a pilot because of his blue eyes, or his color blindness. Which also happened to be one of the things that got him such good movie roles, aside from being a great actor, of course. But it was his experience out there that made him realize the difference between people was circumstance.
When one member of the team got injured, it started a chain of bad luck as the others were left really shaken and then they just panicked, ...One girl got injured, then one girl fell off bars and then you couldn't stop the mistakes.
We had no idea who these boys were, we just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn’t do anything. All I will say is that the crew were really provocative and stirred things up.
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
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- حظ سيءArabic
- mala sortCatalan, Valencian
- smůlaCzech
- uheldDanish
- Unglück, PechGerman
- κακοτυχίαGreek
- malbonŝancoEsperanto
- mala suerteSpanish
- بدشانسیPersian
- huono tuuriFinnish
- malchanceFrench
- mì-àdhScottish Gaelic
- lag-haghyrtManx
- खराब किस्मतHindi
- nasib burukIndonesian
- óhamingja, ógæfaIcelandic
- jella, sfortuna, iella, malasorte, sfigaItalian
- 不運Japanese
- 불운Korean
- adversa, res adversae, fortuna mala, res malaLatin
- pech, ongelukDutch
- uheld, uflaksNorwegian
- pechPolish
- azarPortuguese
- ghinion, nenorocRomanian
- неудача, несчастье, невезениеRussian
- zlostrećaSerbo-Croatian
- oturSwedish
- mifätVolapük
- 厄運Chinese
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