ill luck

NOUN
  1. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
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How To Use ill luck In A Sentence

  • To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
  • Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck. 
  • Cursing their ill luck, the ad men are spending extra money to remove these posters to make the hoardings visible.
  • It is not wise to allow the "deadbeat" -- the remittance man, the gaunt shepherd with his starving flocks and herds, the free selector on an arid patch, the drink shanty where the rouseabouts and shearers knock down their cheques, the race meeting where high and low, rich and poor, are filled with the gambler's ill luck -- fill the foreground of the picture of Australian life. An Autobiography
  • The words of Montoyo had scored deeply, and the presence of our supernumerary laid a kind of incubus, like an omen of ill luck, upon us. Desert Dust
  • Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck. 
  • Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck. 
  • Inasmuch as literary wounds take on the role of ‘talking cures,’ so too is storytelling apotropaic: it has the power to avert evil influence or ill luck.
  • All the 'ill luck' -- that is, the untoward circumstances of the year, would be ascribed to the accident of a person with light hair having been the first to enter a dwelling on the mornings referred to. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
  • We had planned a trip to Bangalore but as ill luck would have it, one of my internal exams has now been scheduled right in the middle of the little break I was banking on.
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