dud

To no one’s surprise, it was a dud.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

For those of us who remember the bicentennial, the semiquincentennial is a complete and utter dud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

But no, we can confidently report that the Great American State Fair is a big ol’ dud.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s the first day of SpaceX trading, and Wall Street has high hopes it’ll provide a lot more excitement than that dud of a World Cup opener.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

The actors thought the show would be a dud.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Comic actors have a sense of timing and an ability to ad-lib when the teleprompter spits out duds, as John Mulaney proved with his inspired rant about masculinity when he presented.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Roy’s campaign sent out 180 communications, records show, the bulk of them ads for Instagram and Facebook, where her team said they saw instantly which stories resonated with likely voters and which were duds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Later that decade it could have paid for the polyester duds John Travolta sported in “Saturday Night Fever.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Lucasfilm was hit-and-miss under Kennedy—for every Star Wars success story like The Force Awakens, there were duds like Solo, a spinoff that focuses on original trilogy icon Han Solo.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

But when he saw that Mareth looked nervous, too, he stuck the duds in his pocket.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins