rotten luck
Example Sentences
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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!
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
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.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
“Occasionally you do” lament the rotten luck, Fangio followed up.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
Entering Sunday night at 2-3, they seemed headed for a season defined by rotten luck and a hellish Super Bowl hangover.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2020
He’d had rotten luck this afternoon, hadn’t sold a single box.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
