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Yet for months afterward, he drifted about Los Angeles lucklessly, alternately sleeping in his car or on Mr. Cretton’s couch, as all of his auditions led to naught.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore."

From Time Magazine Archive

Just before Dday, Janet mans an ack-ack gun and lucklessly brings down a party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane.

From Time Magazine Archive

This at the time flustered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had lucklessly declared that Britain's frontier was upon the Rhine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Harbins had lucklessly urged Jane to join them.

From Jane Cable by McCutcheon, George Barr