Meaning of dead-ender | Babel Free

Definitions

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 One who still holds onto a political position or other viewpoint that is considered outdated or defeated.

Examples

“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.”

“Unlike the ideological dead-enders, veterans of the Goldwater campaign, they didn't see much difference between Reagan and Ford—and, other things being equal, they were more inclined to side with the establishment than with the insurgency[…]”

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