fiasco
noun
a complete and ignominious failure.
fiascos
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pluralof fiasco.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If the fiascos Jobs encountered were largely of his own making, the successes often had to do with luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
One would think fiascos like this would cure lawyers of their reliance on artificial intelligence chatbots to do their work for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
The push for air travel reform from the administration follows a spate of public fiascos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
This most private public servant finds herself repeatedly ensnared in public fiascos, which makes for a dramatic life story that easily fills 500 pages — and Abedin is only 45.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2021
Other experiments followed at intervals, most of which were fiascos, although some were partially successful.
From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard
