Synonyms for fiasco
fiˈæs koʊ or, esp. for 2 , -ˈɑ skoʊfi·as·co

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1. fiasconoun

   Synonyms:
   debacle

2. fiasconoun

   A ludicrous or humiliating failure. Some effort that went quite wrong.

   Synonyms:
   debacle

3. fiasconoun

   A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

   Synonyms:
   debacle

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1. debacle, fiasconoun

   a sudden and violent collapse

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, whipping, slaughter

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1. fiasconoun

   Synonyms:
   [It.] failure, fizzle, abortive attempt

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1. List of paraphrases for "fiasco":

   flop, failure, debacle, bust, washout

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1. Daniel Ives:

   The Twitter fiasco had a major overhang on Tesla's stock and that is Musk's golden child.

2. Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole:

   We had two-thirds of our road patrol tied up on this fiasco.

3. Joel Kitchens:

   Really the presidential election will be the biggest challenge, and I think also if there is going to be a resurgence it's more likely to come in the fall, when you look at the stakes in the November election, where Wisconsin is likely to be one of the determining states for the presidency, we certainly can't afford to have it be a fiasco with people not getting ballots.

4. Matthias Diem:

   It's no longer a question of whether, but when, in Gatwick, whoever was behind it, they only wanted to create chaos and economic damage, but if they had dropped something, it could have been a fiasco.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   When democrats complain about not taking stands you go back to Ruth Bader Ginsberg who made it a principle of her nominating process that she would not in any way telegraph where she would stand on anything, ever since the Bork nomination and the fiasco of the attacks on him it’s understood your job up there is to dance, to express a fealty to the constitution. You will say you will be independent and that's it and he did that beautifully.