Crossword-Solution: FAILS 5 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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FAILS anagram ALIFS, FILAS

We have 56 clues for the answer “FAILS”

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Goes bust 1 answer
Does not measure up. 1 answer
Doesn't cut it 1 answer
Doesn't deliver 1 answer
Doesn't get the credit? 1 answer
Doesn't hack it 1 answer
Doesn't succeed 1 answer
Earns F's 1 answer
Flunks. 1 answer
Gets a bad grade 1 answer
Gets an "F" for effort 1 answer
Gets an F 1 answer
Does not pass 1 answer
Goes to the wall 1 answer
Has to repeat a grade 1 answer
Has to repeat, maybe 1 answer
Holds back a grade 1 answer
Is unavailing. 1 answer
Needs repair 1 answer
Some are epic 1 answer
Subjects of some YouTube compilations 1 answer
Tanks miserably 1 answer
Tanks, so to speak 1 answer
Totally tanks 1 answer
Bombs miserably 1 answer
Goes on the fritz 2 answers
Gets an F on 2 answers
Falls on one's face 2 answers
Goes belly up 2 answers
Stops functioning 2 answers
Falls flat 2 answers
Malfunctions 3 answers
De-faults? 3 answers
Misses the boat 3 answers
Doesn't pass 3 answers
Is unable to 3 answers
Goes belly-up 3 answers
Is unsuccessful 3 answers
Goes under 3 answers
Misses the mark 3 answers
Lays an egg 3 answers
Comes a cropper 4 answers
Disappoints 4 answers
Is lacking. 4 answers
Goes kaput 4 answers
Falls short 5 answers
Blows it 5 answers
Comes up short 5 answers
Doesn't work 5 answers
Fizzles (out) 6 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FAILS (5)

When women are in a freakish mood, their usual intuition, either from carelessness or inherent defect, seemingly fails to teach them this, and hence it was that Bathsheba was fated to be astonished to-day.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The copyright law now addresses compact disk as a medium, and LC can request one copy of that, or two copies if it is the only version, and can request copies of software, but that fails to address magazines or books or anything like that which is in machine-readable form.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Crowns, scepters, pennies, paste jewels, village notoriety, world-wide fame—they are all the same, they have no _material _value: while they content the _spirit _they are precious, when this fails they are worthless.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The main short comings of "netfind" are: (1) it often fails if the target computer does not support the "finger" command; and (2) it only works on the Internet, not Bitnet or other mail systems.
Email 101 John Goodwin 1993

Quotes with FAILS (3)

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some…
David Foster Wallace
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
Kevin Durant
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen powe…
Criss Jami Killosophy
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 65 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).