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With such lucklessness, she can’t help but protest: “Really?”

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018

That night, as he sat cogitating in his bedroom over his lucklessness, his eye fell on a vegetable monstrosity from Queensland, presented to him by one of the hands on board the You Yangs .

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis

M. Michelet has with singular lucklessness selected Angers as the type of a feudal city; with the one exception of the Castle of St. Louis it is absolutely without a trace of the feudal impress.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

Well, Judy had several reasons, all sufficient, all perfect; but alas! he and Evie ever hit it off with deplorable lucklessness.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

He was a loud-voiced, merry man; and he aired his wit freely, though evidently with no intent to be unkind, upon the lover out of whose lucklessness his own luck had come.

From An Idyl Of The East Side 1891 by Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas)