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rotten luck

noun as in raw deal

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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!

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Pierrette’s rotten luck is no joke.

“The Crown’s” take on Diana’s death, though grounded in research, is unlikely to evade criticism — or permanently quell the conspiracy theorists who want to believe it was caused by anything but bad decisions and rotten luck.

Rotten luck seems to follow Mattia Zenere, 31, on his travels lately.

The film is an unusually layered look at how the combination of privation, misplaced familial loyalty and just plain rotten luck can make the immigrant experience in America a nightmare.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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