as in unfortunate
having, prone to, or marked by bad luck
a hard-luck ball club that never could get the breaks it needed
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His latest album, 2023’s Twenty on High, is a revelatory collection of hard-luck stories and working-class resilience.
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Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
The rise from an impoverished, dysfunctional upbringing in hard-luck Appalachia to Yale Law School and the U.S. Senate is truly the stuff of political myth-making.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
The latest delay was a familiar setback for the hard-luck Starliner, which has suffered a steady stream of frustrating complications since an initial unpiloted test flight in 2019 was derailed by software problems and communications glitches.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 May 2024
Head-to-head with Donald Trump Now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended his hard-luck campaign just before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Haley will be going head-to-head with her former boss on Tuesday in the Granite State.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
Horan was the hard-luck shooter of the game, denied multiple times by Musovic and clanking another header off the crossbar.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
And Rafael Devers has had kind of a hard-luck year, even as he’s been productive.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
Williams came up short in her effort, a hard-luck, 6-4, 6-3 loss to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in which Williams aggravated an injured right knee early in the match.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 July 2023
The hard-luck Dennis, who emerged from Portland with 2022-23 series lead of one point over Cassidy, finished second for the fourth time in five races.
—Ndaschel, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
The rise from an impoverished, dysfunctional upbringing in hard-luck Appalachia to Yale Law School and the U.S. Senate is truly the stuff of political myth-making.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
The latest delay was a familiar setback for the hard-luck Starliner, which has suffered a steady stream of frustrating complications since an initial unpiloted test flight in 2019 was derailed by software problems and communications glitches.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 May 2024
Head-to-head with Donald Trump Now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended his hard-luck campaign just before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Haley will be going head-to-head with her former boss on Tuesday in the Granite State.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
Horan was the hard-luck shooter of the game, denied multiple times by Musovic and clanking another header off the crossbar.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
And Rafael Devers has had kind of a hard-luck year, even as he’s been productive.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
Williams came up short in her effort, a hard-luck, 6-4, 6-3 loss to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in which Williams aggravated an injured right knee early in the match.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 July 2023
The hard-luck Dennis, who emerged from Portland with 2022-23 series lead of one point over Cassidy, finished second for the fourth time in five races.
—Ndaschel, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
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