raw deal
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From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
By anyone’s standards, Lohan took the raw deal she was given as a child star whose popularity exploded in the brutal celebrity culture of the early aughts and transformed it into an impressive second act.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2024
Logie, who left Division II Point Loma to become Montana State’s head man last season, inherited a raw deal with the Bobcats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
For The Times, Charles Arrowsmith wrote that the self-help book “is a raw deal, a hollow PR exercise filled with precepts and quips but devoid of self-awareness or humility.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023
I certainly got a raw deal from my beloved husband—that’s all you’ll hear from me about him.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
