duds

However, pharmaceutical companies want to recover their years of research and development costs - and the field has produced a lot of expensive duds and dead-ends.

They’ve spent plenty of money on duds, too, but taken as a whole their business has been strong.

Large numbers of the shells fired were duds; they failed to detonate.

In comparison, Graziadei is miles ahead of these reality show dating duds.

In fact, the whole presidential nominating process begins far too early with a hyped caucus and primary in pipsqueak states — Iowa and New Hampshire — that this year were duds.