Definition of "ill luck" [ill luck]

• An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Lieutenant Colonel Nagel, the OKH liaison officer with Guderian's headquarters, was recalled to the army group at Borisov, where as ill luck would have it,"
• "A kind of untoward fate seems inherent in the characters of some persons and makes them the victims of all the ill luck on the road."
• "He was certainly unaggressive about his interests, and yet a kind of ill luck seemed to dog his footsteps: for example, once he was to ask a former student to investigate for him a position with a civic welfare organization in New York, and the student was to comply—only to take the job for himself."