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Currently at the crease and hopeless?
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no-win
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Word definitions for no-win in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a no-win situation (= one in which there will be a bad result whatever happens ) ▪ It’s a no-win situation. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN situation ▪ The team, certainly against the less-powerful nations, were ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1962, in reference to a situation where victory is impossible, from no + win .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Bound to end in failure
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. certain to end in failure and disappointment; "a no-win situation"
Usage examples of no-win.
Politically and militarily things are certainly going their way, thanks in no small measure to some incredibly stupid moves by us -- such as no-win war policies, gigantic loans and food shipments -- allowing them both to feed their people and to outspend us on defense.
The odds against the health and lives of the merchantmen surviving, respectively, their living conditions and the attentions of the enemy were high indeed: theirs was a classic no-win situation.
You got yourself in an almost no-win situation there where you had very little to win and a hell of a lot to lose.
It was so like Jones to search for the positives in a no-win situation.
In Raiders we finally see him have to deal with a no-win situation.
On this planet, metapsychic operants may be in a no-win situation.
As he climbed into the aircar, he asked, Dont believe in no-win situations, huh?
Adams gazed out at the thunderheads, his sense a no-win struggle between the logic of the situation and his desire to protect his people.