Noun
The seeds must have been duds because the plants never grew.
She put on her new duds for the party.
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Noun
Will Ferrell's campaign to be PEOPLE's 2024 Sexiest Man Alive was a dud.—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025 But the game was a dud, as the Heat suffered its most lopsided loss of the season.—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
After back-to-back losses— a dud performance and a choke job — San Francisco played a team wholly inferior in the New England Patriots.—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024 Russian cluster munitions reportedly have a dud rate of as high as 40%.—Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for dud
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