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raw deal
noun as in very bad luck
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For most women, though, it’s a raw deal.
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By anyone’s standards, Lohan took the raw deal she was given as a child star whose popularity exploded in the brutal celebrity culture of the early aughts and transformed it into an impressive second act.
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It was already true that straight marriage is, statistically speaking, a raw deal for women.
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Sharks have been getting a raw deal from humans for a long time.
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Logie, who left Division II Point Loma to become Montana State’s head man last season, inherited a raw deal with the Bobcats.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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