NOUN
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an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all - an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
- unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event
How To Use bad luck In A Sentence
- BAD luck if you're a battery chicken. The Sun
- Good courage breaks bad luck.
- They say it's bad luck to spill salt.
- And my father was not to accept excuses about the strokes of bad luck or the bad weather.
- Bad luck, I hope,won't hook on to me in two days.
- Poor old Alan! He's had more than his fair share of bad luck recently.
- Sometimes swathes of northern cities find themselves submerged, which is just bad luck, but often as not it affects small villages with thatched houses. Times, Sunday Times
- Also patron of good weather and rain; he is invoked against bad luck and plague.
- What's more, they stick to their strategies even if they are having a run of bad luck.
- Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia