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bad luck

NOUN
rotten break
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adversity hard time hardship misfortune setback tragedy
WEAK
bad break blow devil's own luck hard cheese hard luck ill luck mischance raw deal reverse rotten luck tough break tough luck
Antonyms
STRONGEST
advantage blessing boon favor success

Example Sentences

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Meta and Google both vowed to appeal verdicts that were handed down by civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., brushing off the losses as a bit of bad luck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

“Bad years for the S&P 500 are due to very specific factors, not just bad luck or arbitrary changes in investor sentiment,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

"It's not that he wasn't concentrating. It was just a bit of bad luck."

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

And yet Muñoz does not blame anyone for her death; instead, he puts it down to bad luck.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Now, if he didn’t like boys who caught animals and could cause them to have bad luck, I was just in for it.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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