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an event or enterprise that ends disastrously — especially because of poor planning or preparation

Poor policy decisions have turned a minor event into an American debacle.

After the debacle in Russia I left the country,
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

debacle = an event or enterprise that ends disastrously

The policy resulted in an unprecidented environmental debacle.
That mission certainly has not gone as the Bush administration planned, and it is roughly midway between a disappointment and a debacle.
Ted Galen Carpenter -- Free Speech for Generals -- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6371&print=Y (retrieved 06/28/06)
The result was a debacle.
Brink Lindsey -- War & the Battle of Ideas -- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4570&print=Y (retrieved 06/28/06)
There had been a few massive manhunts before, but none like the one that would surely follow this debacle.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Or given me any assignment after my debacle with Luzan, much less one with a man like John Kwang, with whom I might so easily identify?
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
She sold few and attributed the debacle to America's fading love of poetry.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
He imagined Trina out there somewhere, being held by the bonfire people, probably even crazier with another day gone and the debacle of the forest fire.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
If a bit of reputation was all I had to show for this debacle, I'd have to do my best to build on it.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
It was a general debacle.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
I was just quietly hopeful that, after the racing debacle, Will was still prepared to leave the annex.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
"I'm sorry you didn't make out with Leslie, kid," Nathan said to me one night after the debacle on Pierrepont Street.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
After the xylophone debacle in band, Lorenzo was adrift.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
When the survivors of the McKinley debacle showed up on the south side of Everest in 1996, Makalu Gau was again their leader.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
He loved to needle him about the Hungary debacle.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Four days after the Jolly Seventeen debacle Vida Sherwin called and casually blew Carol's world to pieces.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Miss Marlee wasn't to blame for this whole debacle.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir

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