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dead duck
adjective as in desperate
Strongest matches
adjective as in doomed
Strong matches
noun as in sitting duck
Strongest match
Example Sentences
They cannot easily reorient those commitments now: Perry may be a dead duck, but he refuses to acknowledge it.
The Obama-Brown stimulus is a dead duck before the G-20 even meets.
I glided forward, and came near shooting the Quartermaster, who sat in a bunch of sedge-grass, with a dead duck by his side.
The little man got a long stick, and, reaching it out, drew the dead duck to the bank.
We wasted half an hour fussing over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole.
We wasted an hour and a quarter over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole.
I have occasionally found a dead duck beneath the ice or floating in the water of a salt-hole.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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