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sinking ship
noun as in failure
Strong matches
noun as in insolvency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in nonfeasance
Strong matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- fiasco
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- neglect
- nonperformance
- omission
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccess
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccessfulness
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccessfulness
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccess
- washout
- wreck
Example Sentences
Nevertheless, the feeling I insist upon having is hope—the chance of righting this sinking ship before it is too late.
One time he stood on the dock of a ship and sunk the ship just to feel what it was like to be on a sinking ship.
The morning also served as a welcoming party for new CEO Hubert Joly, the Frenchman brought in Monday to right the sinking ship.
Too many liberals focus exclusively on fairness; as if everyone drowning in a sinking ship would be okay.
Not even a classic Williams 11th-hour resurgence in the third set was enough to save the sinking ship.
Ney and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.
It is difficult to account for so many of the lifeboats being sent from the sinking ship, in a smooth sea, far from full.
But what is precisely the difference between shaving in a sinking ship and smoking in a powder magazine?
When they thought I was done for, the rats forsook the sinking ship.
They have no compass, that having been forgotten in their scramble out of the sinking ship.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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