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failson
[ feyl-suhn ]
noun
- 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.
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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.
Kang Ae-sim and Yang Dong-geun portray an elderly woman and her failson who enter the tourney to erase his mountainous debt.
Connor, the failson and outcast of the Roy family, quickly backtracks, amending the statement to, “I never got to make him proud.”
"Oh, man. He never even liked me," the dry-eyed failson says upon hearing the news.
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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