failson
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An incompetent, unsuccessful middle- or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family's wealth or influence.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Coordinate term: faildaughter"
- "This is the thread for Failsons. We are disappointments to our families, burdens on societies, and NOT jealous of our older sibling's nice houses and luxury automobiles."
- "That manifests itself differently in different classes and geographic areas. For white, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty—they become failsons."
- "But that is how it went for family failsons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday."
- "Zimbabwe’s people suffer while the spoiled failsons of the elite floss on the ’gram."
- "[T]he white nationalism of internet failsons is like the allegiance to an imaginary caliphate that motivated the terrorists whose depredations helped get Trump elected in the first place. It's often just a carapace, a flag of convenience, a performance for the vast TV-and-online audience that now attends these grisly spectacles, with a malignant narcissism and nihilism underneath."