fiasco

[ US /fiˈæskoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sudden and violent collapse
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How To Use fiasco In A Sentence

  • But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
  • Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
  • He called the PM a failed leader and tried to partly blame him for the fiasco over failure to deport foreign prisoners. The Sun
  • He was known as a consummate and extraordinarily discreet bureaucrat, but before the Bay of Pigs fiasco he had done little for the new administration and had no real sense of what his fate would be in the new regime. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
  • The mass rally was a total fiasco.
  • We're experts at turning a noble fiasco into a story about fortitude and stoicism.
  • The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm.
  • The scale of the crisis facing Yorkshire schools emerged last night, with more than 250 teaching jobs to be axed following a Government-funding fiasco.
  • Of special interest to me right now are the dinosaurs of the British Wealden (of course), the intriguing tie-ins between Wealden fossil collectors, Conan Doyle's Lost World and the Piltdown fiasco, convergence between different fossorial tetrapods, manatee evolution, and British big cats (yes, really). Archive 2006-01-01
  • Their ministerial responsibilities, however unglamorous, matter to thousands of people, as the family credit fiasco showed.
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