dud

I don’t do first-date hikes because I don’t like feeling trapped if the guy’s a dud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

With the hotly anticipated SpaceX offering imminent, it’s apt that a rare dud in Elon Musk’s sprawling business empire is called The Boring Company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The twenty-third string was a dud, costing us one minute.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Costume designer Maya Edmond dresses Big Ant thematically: white tees when he’s trying to be good, black duds when his demons are winning and comic book-y jailbird stripes during his pivotal teenage arrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Splurging money on last-minute loans who, surprisingly, turn out to be duds.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Amazon’s Fire smartphone and Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating systems were both duds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

“Makes sense to me,” said Aunt Pretty, folding up my new duds.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney