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failed
adjective as in abortive
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failing, ineffective, ineffectual, miscarried, unavailing, unproductive, useless, vain, worthless
adjective as in bankrupt
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adjective as in insolvent
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broken, busted, foreclosed, in Chapter 11, in Chapter 13, in receivership, in the red, on the rocks, out of money, taken to the cleaners, unbalanced, undone, wiped-out
adjective as in unsuccessful
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abortive, disastrous, doomed, foiled, fruitless, futile, ill-fated, ineffective, ineffectual, losing, thwarted, useless, vain
Example Sentences
Stefanik and Rubio are conventionally credentialed and will probably have basic familiarity with the issues they’re working on, but they’re also being put in the jobs that have the least potential to turn the U.S. into a failed state, which is good, I guess.
Ms Roberts bought a spy camera over concerns about Mr Stockton and her son but failed to take any further action to protect him, it is alleged.
They were endorsed again the week after the massacre, as if they were not shocking but the logical evolution of four decades of messaging that, until that terrible August day, had failed to land.
The status quo has failed to protect Crusius’ community, and the logical response was vigilantism.
Ms Nyachuru told the BBC it was not until 2021 that she received a written apology from Welby about the death of her brother, in which he admitted that Smyth was responsible and the church had failed her family.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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