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G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUSThe "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYThe men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSI wouldn't go on if I were you, sir; the luck's dead against you to-night; I wouldn't go on, indeed I wouldn't.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSTheir sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSConditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXThen my luck changed and I found myself under one of the very greatest teachers of his time, Professor Huxley.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSIf any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSTrue; but as we are far enough now from that point, we must e'en make the best of the bad.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSI found that I had been allowed to acquire certain bad habits and besetting sins—most people do.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSWORDS RELATED TO BAD LUCK
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- alluvion
- bad luck
- bad news
- bad thing
- blow
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- contretemps
- crash
- culmination
- curtains
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- denouement
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- failure
- fatality
- fiasco
- finale
- grief
- hardship
- havoc
- ill
- infliction
- meltdown
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
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- mishap
- reverse
- scourge
- stroke
- termination
- the worst
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- trial
- trouble
- upshot
- waterloo
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- advantage
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- cast
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- coincidence
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- destination
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- doom
- even chance
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- future
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- good luck
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- heads or tails
- hit
- in the cards
- kismet
- lot
- lottery
- luck out
- lucky break
- misfortune
- occurrence
- odds
- outcome
- peradventure
- peril
- providence
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- stroke of luck
- throw of the dice
- toss-up
- turn of the cards
- way the cookie crumbles
- wheel of fortune
- act of God
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- collision
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- flood
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- holocaust
- hot water
- ill luck
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- reverse
- rock
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- the worst
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- hard time
- holy mess
- hot water
- indigence
- jam
- misfortune
- need
- pickle
- pinch
- poverty
- privation
- rigor
- rotten luck
- scrape
- straits
- throe
- ticklish spot
- tough break
- tough luck
- trial
- trouble
- unholy mess
- vicissitude
- want
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.