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failure
noun as in lack of success
Strongest matches
bankruptcy, breakdown, collapse, decline, defeat, deficiency, deterioration, failing, loss, misstep
Strong matches
abortion, bomb, botch, bungle, bust, checkmate, decay, deficit, downfall, fiasco, flop, frustration, implosion, inadequacy, lemon, loser, mess, misadventure, miscarriage, nonperformance, overthrow, rout, rupture, stalemate, stoppage, turkey, washout, wreck
Weak matches
false step, faux pas, flash in the pan, lead balloon, nonsuccess, sinking ship, total loss
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Example Sentences
“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement deploring the state GOP for its failure to censure Duke.
In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.
Failure to bond to their parents was the prominent reason children were being given away.
That which is called nasality is caused by the failure of the tone to reach freely the anterior cavities of the nares.
Marriage is like Mayonnaise sauce, either a great success or an absolute and entire failure.
Joachim, as time showed, never forgave the Emperor for the failure of his cherished plan.
When trusted with anything like the command of a mixed body of troops he proved an utter failure.
He consented to the trial, receiving Planner's solemn promise that, in the event of failure, it should be the last.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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