dud

We don’t witness the quadrillions of experiments that were absolute duds along the 4 billion year pathway to now.

His clothing line that his friend described as “upscale and urban” was a dud.

The Hollywood Reporter said the film was a dud, but Holmes plays neatly against type.

She turns in dud stories, misses deadlines, and is prone to occasionally sleeping with her young, struggling musician sources.

The prank itself seems meaningless, and the reaction was un-extraordinary: all in all, a dud.

Reviews seemed to range a short spectrum between turnip (a dud, in the French parlance) and not-a-complete-turnip.

As Dud said, somebody was guilty, and that somebody was the person they must find.

“Looking for two lost donkeys,” retorted Dan, who was learning to give Dud as good as he sent.

Dud showed him the impressions of two hoofs dug deep into the ground.

Bob and Dud tied their horses to a hitching-rack and climbed the fence into the park.

This was the equipment that must have been used to handle the dud atom bomb some months back.