Fiasco meaning

Noun: fiasco

Pronunciation: (fee’as-kow)

Fiasco meaning: A disastrous or embarrassing failure.

Synonyms: debacle, collapse

Quotations:  Edwina Pendarvis – I’ve really enjoyed it. I especially like working with the students and professors. But, what was most stressful was the big events – that something would go wrong in public that would be a big fiasco.

Kevin Coker – I’ve never seen anything like that. It could have turned into a fiasco, but the players calmed down and the game went on.

Darrell Haire – The scandal hurt us, no doubt about it. The congressional hearing was just a fiasco; it was so embarrassing. But the board we have now is very well respected. I think we’re getting our integrity back. We had to raise dues and we didn’t see a drop off in membership.

Steve Mulvenon – It was pretty much a fiasco. They ended up wasting a day that those kids could have better spent in class or doing what they were going to do at the park.

Sample sentences:

• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
• People start screaming at each other, and it becomes a fiasco. Suddenly you’re arguing about personalities rather than issues.
• His government has been a fiasco. Under his leadership, there has been more kidnappings, rapes and violence against civilians as well as repression against the masses.
• It’s time to end this. You come to these meetings and it’s the same thing. It’s a fiasco.
• This is a fiasco. I’ve never seen this many people. You’d think they were giving it away.