3
failure
2
underdog
1
dud
1
flop
1
goner
1
gosling
1
in the cards(adjective, hopeless, wrecked, damned, condemned)
1
in the soup
1
lemon
1
loser
1
sitting duck(noun, expression, vulnerable, target, pushover)
1
terminal case
1
thrown down(adjective, hopeless, wrecked, damned, condemned)
1
unredeemed(adjective, hopeless, wrecked, damned, condemned)
1
washout
0
airy
0
also-ran
0
babe in the woods(expression, idiom, vulnerable, pushover)
0
babe in woods(expression, idiom, vulnerable, sinecure)
0
bomb
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