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bad luck

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun

    an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

  2. 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"

  3. misfortune, bad lucknoun

    unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

Wiktionary

  1. bad lucknoun

    Misfortune.

Wikipedia

  1. 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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  1. 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.

Wikidata

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bad luck in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bad luck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of bad luck in a Sentence

  1. Ana Carrasco:

    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.

  2. Bob Forrester:

    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.

  3. Nadia Comaneci:

    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.

  4. Nora Lacchab:

    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.

  5. Andrew W. Mathis:

    It is bad luck to be superstitious.


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