Noun
ill-fortune (plural ill-fortunes)
Bad luck; misfortune
The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. Jean-Baptiste Say
To neglect one's ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life. African Proverb