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. New York:

   Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a 'disastrous' and 'humiliating' 'fiasco,' in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists, yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Anthony Scaramucci:

   I almost got divorced through this whole fiasco, thank God my wife and I were able to put the marriage back together. I don't know why George Conway is hitting George Conway that hard. The President waited four months before The President responded. And, you know, Kellyanne Conway seems to be defending The President, so I want to stay out of that one because I don't like getting involved in people's relationships, particularly after the fiasco that I went through.

5. Steve Bannon:

   This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build Wall Inc..