faildaughter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class woman who is protected from economic duress by her family's wealth or influence.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Coordinate term: failson"
- "Its project, maybe, is working out what happens when the world says you must strive hard for professional and personal success above all, but offers only the conditions to become a faildaughter. It offers a look at the kind of feminism that is being developed by young women for whom the promise of feminism doesn't seem to be working out — faildaughters, not girl bosses."
- "Meritocracy is a cruel joke. The real scandal isn't all the unethical shenanigans rich parents will engage in to keep their failsons and faildaughters from tumbling down the socioeconomic ladder — it's that we use adolescents' test scores to ration economic security in the first place."
- "Keeping failsons and faildaughters like that afloat as they bounce inevitably from project to project, collecting first art, then horses, then launching a pine nut milk startup, whatever—well, it's bound to add up."
- "The unsung scene-stealer of Hacks is Kaitlin Olson, who plays DJ, Deborah's lovably moronic faildaughter."
- "With two episodes left, the dice seem loaded for the second outcome: Failsons and a faildaughter lose their company and, oops, bring down the American republic along the way."