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fails
verb as in be unsuccessful
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss the boat
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
verb as in abandon, forsake
verb as in lose money
Example Sentences
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
She fails to appreciate the congressional and constitutional obstacles Johnson had to overcome to win passage of the bill.
Indeed, designers frequently reference each other in their shows—and the press never fails to notice.
This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails.
Movie Gale fails to conjure emotions more complicated than “oooh, what pretty eyes he has.”
Yet in many cases their good sense fails to discover the right way.
So one's common sense fails to establish a definite reasonable time.
There are many cases like this in which one's common sense fails to furnish a correct, yet needful guide.
And certainly a Pastor is excusable who fails to do things of which he has no knowledge.
If he fails to qualify or a vacancy occurs, the creditors have an opportunity to make another appointment.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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