rotten luck
Example Sentences
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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
Small businesses of long standing, and families who went into debt to launch, say, restaurants or bars or bakeries just before the pandemic, now have blighted futures — the caprice of rotten luck.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022
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
“It’s not my fault you’re a Spare. Or that you invoked the impossible task. It was rotten luck, but don’t take it out on me!”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
