See fiasco in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1898, Clement Fezandié, Through the Earth:",
"text": "\"Well, doctor,\" said Mr. Curtis, heartily, \"I am glad for your sake that the financial part of the enterprise has succeeded so well, because, the more I think over the scheme, the more I am convinced that it will prove a complete fiasco in practice. And that reminds me that there is one question which I wish to ask you.\"",
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"text": "There was the fiasco about Olga coming to the tableaux, which was the cause of her sending that very tart reply, via Miss Lyall, to Lady Ambermere's impertinence, and the very next morning, Lady Ambermere, coming again into Riseholme, perhaps for that very purpose, had behaved to Lucia as Lucia had behaved to the moon, and cut her. That was irritating, but the counter-irritant to it had been that Lady Ambermere had then gone to Olga's, and been told that she was not at home, though she was very audibly practising in her music-room at the time.",
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"text": "I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers. He went away and brought them wrapped in newspaper, unwrapped them and, when I asked him to, drew the corks and put the wine and vermouth under the bed.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "cǎnbài",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "慘敗 /惨败"
},
{
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"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
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"word": "fuŝafero"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"lang_code": "et",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
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"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasco"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fiasko"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "fiásko",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "φιάσκο"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
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"roman": "diatropḗ",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "διατροπή"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "fiaskó"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fíaskó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasco"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "waya",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "わや"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasks"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "fijásko",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "фија́ско"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "hanepītanga"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"lang_code": "no",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "klęska"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine"
],
"word": "poruta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasco"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fracasso"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "fiásko",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "фиа́ско"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "фијаско"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "fijasko"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"lang_code": "sk",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiasco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fracaso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pannkaka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"word": "fiyasko"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "fyásko",
"sense": "ludicrous or humiliating situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фиа́ско"
}
],
"word": "fiasco"
}
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