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ill luck

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Princeton's WordNet

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

    an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

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

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ill luck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ill luck in a Sentence

  1. Charles Baudelaire:

    It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  2. Miguel de Cervantes:

    Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

  3. Samuel Smiles:

    It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  4. Miguel de Cervantes:

    As ill-luck would have it.

  5. Douglas Gerald:

    Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.


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