Thesaurus / hard luck
other words for hard luck
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G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
"I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES
Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
I 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 WILLS
WORDS RELATED TO HARD LUCK
- act of God
- adversity
- affliction
- bad luck
- bad news
- bale
- bane
- blight
- blow
- bust
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- collapse
- collision
- crash
- debacle
- defeat
- depression
- emergency
- exigency
- failure
- fall
- fell stroke
- fiasco
- flood
- flop
- grief
- hard luck
- harm
- hazard
- holocaust
- hot water
- ill luck
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- reverse
- rock
- rough
- ruin
- ruination
- setback
- slip
- stroke
- the worst
- tragedy
- undoing
- upset
- washout
- woe
- act of God
- adversity
- affliction
- bad luck
- bad news
- bale
- bane
- blight
- blow
- bust
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- collapse
- collision
- crash
- debacle
- defeat
- depression
- emergency
- exigency
- failure
- fall
- fell stroke
- fiasco
- flood
- flop
- grief
- hard luck
- harm
- hazard
- holocaust
- hot water
- ill luck
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- reverse
- rock
- rough
- ruin
- ruination
- setback
- slip
- stroke
- the worst
- tragedy
- undoing
- upset
- washout
- woe
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unluck
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casuality
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- stroke of bad luck
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.