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[ UK /dˈʌd/ ]
[ US /ˈdəd/ ]
NOUN
  1. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
    the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
    the first experiment was a real turkey
  2. an explosion that fails to occur
  3. someone who is unsuccessful
ADJECTIVE
  1. failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive
    he stepped on a dud mine

How To Use dud In A Sentence

  • Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
  • Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
  • The state has anted up $40 million for salary increases, but, in a program similar to Cincinnati's, Iowa will now evaluate teachers thoroughly to make sure the extra dough goes only to the good classroom performers, not the duds.
  • As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
  • Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers.
  • You're gonna become one unhappy, sore and mundane dude if you wore uncomfy shoes all the time.
  • Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
  • Of course, I don't know what the relevant understandings were on the Judiciary committee, but I have a hard time working myself into a high moral dudgeon over it.
  • Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
  • So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
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