rotten luck
Example Sentences
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Here, the Russian conscripts are either mean but brave or they just have rotten luck.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
What rotten luck for you that “The Grapes of Wrath” should not only have come out be- fore your book was submitted but should have so swept the country!
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
The kind that makes up for so many also-ran seasons — some self-inflicted, some just rotten luck.
From New York Times • May 19, 2022
“Occasionally you do” lament the rotten luck, Fangio followed up.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
"What rotten luck for me. We've had a jolly time here at Burguete."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
