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Dead-ender

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who has no prospects for the future; a loser; a dropout.
  2. 2
    One who still holds onto a political position or other viewpoint that is considered outdated or defeated.

    "In the first months after the fall of Baghdad, Rumsfeld and his aides still had a limited view of the insurgency, seeing it as little more than the work of Baathist "dead-enders," criminal gangs, and foreign terrorists who were Al Qaeda followers."

Etymology

From dead end + -er.

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