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  • noun The state of being a loser.

Etymologies

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loser +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • No-one yet has a recipe how to solve obesity and drug taking, that is because no such recipe exists, 'loserhood' is and always will be part of the human condition.

    The Broken (Nihilist) Society? 2008

  • I am not this fantastic example of loserhood I would have myself think.

    Opportunity In Crisis 2008

  • I am not this fantastic example of loserhood I would have myself think.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Losers waiting on line in New York have started their own blog to chronicle their loserhood.

    iPhone hype roundup 2007

  • Losers waiting on line in New York have started their own blog to chronicle their loserhood.

    The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : iPhone hype roundup 2007

  • But don't over-indulge, for "overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood", one Web site warns.

    Palmisano's IBM To Make Sametime Work With AOL, Yahoo 2006

  • Because, you know, the thing is…even if you cast off what seems like every last vestige of loserhood and transform yourself into the very Man Among Men that you never even thought that you’d ever become, with the wealth and the beautiful wife and the President trying to get you on his calendar…even then there’s this tiny little niggling suspicion that this whole deal could be a lot better than it is.

    The Speculist: Stillness Part VI, Chapter 59 2005

  • Because, you know, the thing is…even if you cast off what seems like every last vestige of loserhood and transform yourself into the very Man Among Men that you never even thought that you’d ever become, with the wealth and the beautiful wife and the President trying to get you on his calendar…even then there’s this tiny little niggling suspicion that this whole deal could be a lot better than it is.

    The Speculist: January 2005 Archives 2004

  • As the teabagger continue to roll out loser propositions -- jim Demint is the poster boy for loserhood.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • I was apparently way off base, not knowing the the depths to which sore loserhood can be taken.

    The Moderate Voice 2009

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