duds

The two clashed on a deal Bluhdorn had made with ABC to buy more than 100 Paramount movies to air on television, many of which Diller said were duds.

This was because of the glut of high school phenoms who turned into pro duds.

While blockbusters filled seats in theaters this year, there were also plenty of duds.

My home office looks like a Jenga game of nonfiction books I read about Southern California Latino life this past year — and almost none were duds.

However, pharmaceutical companies want to recover their years of research and development costs - and the field has produced a lot of expensive duds and dead-ends.