1 bad luck

2 unlucky

3 calamitous

4 wretched

1 dark and gloomy

1 difficult to understand

2 cryptic

1 vague

2 ambiguous

3 veiled

4 obscure

1 to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)

2 to hide one's light under a bushel

1 abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)

1 to bide one's time, waiting for an opportunity to stage a comeback in public life (idiom)

1 to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)

2 to hide one's light under a bushel

1 lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim

1 conditions of extreme adversity (idiom)