failson

[feyl-suhn]

noun

Slang.

1. a man who has been unsuccessful in business or life generally, especially one from a wealthy, powerful family.

   The program appeals to silver-spoon failsons who want to have something constructive to do with their time.

Word History and Origins

Origin of failson¹

First recorded in 2010–15; fail ( def. ) + son ( def. ), possibly on internet forums

Example Sentences

After all, if it weren't for government-funded research, Musk would be an anonymous failson living off his daddy's money, instead of a billionaire competing with Kanye West for the title of the world's most cringeworthy celebrity.

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Kang Ae-sim and Yang Dong-geun portray an elderly woman and her failson who enter the tourney to erase his mountainous debt.

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Connor, the failson and outcast of the Roy family, quickly backtracks, amending the statement to, “I never got to make him proud.”

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"Oh, man. He never even liked me," the dry-eyed failson says upon hearing the news.

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Some elements of “Paradise” are dated, but the verve of “A Great Man’s Child,” the show’s failson anthem, with a lyric by Arnold Weinstein, still plays well alongside contemporary talk about “nepotism babies.”

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