Adjective, : That was my lucky day. ,a lucky accident. ,a lucky penny. From Dictionary.com.
How much does "luckiness" factor into game outcomes in the NFL?. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
"luckiness" attached to some of them (as when mince-pies, eaten in different houses during the Twelve Days, bring a happy month each) makes one suspect some more serious original purpose than mere gratification of the appetite. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
But its not just the luckiness, its our ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Even Greenspan could not guarantee such luckiness himself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
She will open these boxes, these are the sum of her luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Prescriptive] Reference
Her methods do produce results, but how much of that has to do with her luckiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Some People Are Just Lucky « Fairegarden] Reference
Of course, tin also has other meanings, especially when used as a prefix to denote falseness or luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [A little dip into Tinfinger] Reference
But I'm not naïve enough to think it doesn't exist, despite my relative luckiness to not encounter it personally on a regular basis. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny Block: Look Out, Your Hate is Showing: Homophobia is Alive and Well] Reference
To put your mind at ease, the luckiness of only being clumsy when pregnant will be a weight off your mind in a couple of months time. From Wordnik.com. [knocked update] Reference
The comprehensive theme throughout the exhibit was surprising, I kept remarking at the luckiness of the jurors who had the task of curating it. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Jury Is Out – Top Artists in Los Angeles] Reference
Intuition would seem to dictate that it is; it certainly seems to be a success that is because of ability, even despite the luckiness of that success. From Wordnik.com. [The Value of Knowledge] Reference
I am also lucky with money (sooo many horscopes have told me this, about both the luckiness and the money issues) to the point where I don't budget because I don't really feel a need to. From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
If he had to go there -- if he was that committed to digging deep and pulling up the perfect character to illustrate the blend of inkiness/luckiness that is Obama -- what made Felix so special?. From Wordnik.com. [David Steele: Felix the Cat] Reference
Try the very recent Happy-Go-Lucky, which takes the notion of happiness (and luckiness) and makes a stunningly lovely and touching film from it, without sentimentality, pretention, or brutality. From Wordnik.com. [On Cinema’s Violence « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
He that does not this to the best of his power, however he sometimes lights on truth, is in the right but by chance; and I know not whether the luckiness of the accident will excuse the irregularity of his proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Hauptmann noticed that the road had become deserted, that the dusk had increased, and that Fraülein Linda's observations on the luckiness of the "find" were interminable, a homicidal fancy just grazed the border of his agitated consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
I acknowledge my luckiness, without giving up my claim to the suckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Swistle] Reference
With waves like this, the scythe's deadliness usually overpowers the horseshoe's luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
HollaAnne think im not gonna study geography today. just living this up to my luckiness tomorrow: 3. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
The white cat with a pink and green flower pattern is posing with a coin that has the kanji for luckiness (fuku) written on it. From Wordnik.com. [Recently updated products at JBOX.com] Reference
Expected runs allowed is substantially higher than actual runs allowed, indicating some luckiness on the part of the defense. From Wordnik.com. [Basement Dwellers] Reference
Moses, to show that his performances had no dependence upon the conjunctions or oppositions of the planets, or the luckiness of any one hour more than another, bids. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
"My stars are not remarkable for their luckiness in a general way," answered Mr. Hawkehurst, coolly, for the man had not yet been born from whom he would accept patronage. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
Using two completely different techniques for analyzing the impact of "luck" vs. "skill" influencing the outcomes of games, he comes up with same estimated component for "luckiness". From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Her remark was followed by a short silence, during which her hearers were, perhaps, questing for consolatory rejoinders rather than congratulating themselves upon their own luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
After her visitor departed, she began to reflect on the luckiness of the overturn which had obstructed her rash design, and admiring her good fortune, would certainly have offered rich sacrifices on the shrine of. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference
Mrs. Malaprop's mistakes, in what she herself calls "orthodoxy," have been often objected to as improbable from a woman in her rank of life; but, though some of them, it must be owned, are extravagant and farcical, they are almost all amusing, -- and the luckiness of her simile. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01] Reference
Thus irregular at all times, even when most wishing to be right, he deprived honesty itself of its merit and advantages; and, where he happened to be just, left it doubtful, (as Locke says of those religious people, who believe right by chance, without examination,) "whether even the luckiness of the accident excused the irregularity of the proceeding.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference
He’d warned her, when it was clear they would marry, Jory still without formed digits—a tailed frog floating in a dime-sized salt bath—warned her about the genetics of his lineage, the twisted gifting of his luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Healer] Reference
Why do you want to know about luckiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
2008-01-22 - luckiness. From Wordnik.com. [jaeaxe Diary Entry] Reference
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