debacle
noun
Origin of debacle
Synonyms for debacle
Related Words for debacle
breakdown, devastation, crash, disaster, wreck, drubbing, rout, fiasco, downfall, failure, reversal, defeat, beating, collapse, ruination, smash, ruin, licking, havoc, overthrowExamples from the Web for debacle
Contemporary Examples of debacle
“I believe we are in the hour of the debacle of the institutions, they cannot be any more rotten,” said Padre Goyo.
During this debacle, she read some medical literature on self-dehydration.
In the event, debacle that it was, Kennedy refused to listen to them.
After this debacle, my friend and I ordered The Artist out of revenge.
Of course, the Crash over Brokeback Mountain debacle fits into this same rant.
The Worst Oscar Winners, From ‘Rocky’ and ‘Crash’ to Gwyneth PaltrowKevin Fallon, Marlow Stern
February 26, 2014
Historical Examples of debacle
The next subject upon which I thought I might tackle him was the “Debacle.”
The debacle of Russia was ever before the eyes of these nations.
With the Doughboy in FranceEdward Hungerford
Some place in that debacle there lay his own responsibility.
Dangerous DaysMary Roberts Rinehart
How long would it be before we reached this stage of debacle?
Our ElizabethFlorence A. Kilpatrick
That was one way of putting it, but both Joe and the newscaster who had covered the debacle knew the reality of the situation.
MercenaryDallas McCord Reynolds