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 trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.

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.

While they were laughing, along came Dud the gum hunter, bearing a chicken with him.

I wonder if our friend Dud isn't just giving us a wrong steer, or is this what he meant we should find?

I for one am anxious to try that trout brook old Dud told us of.

He then bade Mary a "Dud by" in bad English, and set off in a run in a northern direction for the purpose of joining the whites.

These seemed to flit through the air, and always landed with a soft-sounding "phutt" very like a dud.