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nontriumph

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ triumph.

Noun

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nontriumph (plural nontriumphs)

  1. An event that is not a triumph.
    • 2009 June 15, Janet Maslin, “This Baseball Patriarch Could Really Pitch Himself”, in New York Times[1]:
      But factor in Paige’s delectable flair for exaggerating (“Methuselah was my first bat boy”), his convenient ability to forget the nontriumphs [] and his willingness to let his memoirs be co-written by white authors who shared his eagerness to embellish — this yields the morass into which Mr. Tye has intrepidly waded.