Bad luck
Bad luck noun - An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.
Both terms in one sentence
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In the Forgotten Realms universe, a folk story holds that the goddess of bad luck calls a coin toss by the goddess of good luck to decide the fortune of each newborn, and when the coin lands on its edge the "luckless" child makes their own fate.
Source: Heads, Tails, Edge - Donald Duck himself gets a plague of good fortune once when an eccentric foreign guy is about to gift him a huge diamond for his extremely bad luck.
Source: Plague of Good Fortune - Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it.
Source: Superstition Episode
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