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disasterpiece en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of disaster + masterpiece.

Meanings

1. (humorous) An anti-masterpiece; a complete disaster.
   • With pro schedules never cast in granite even at season’s start, a team’s preseason string of games was a makeshift disasterpiece of mismatches. 2004, Neil W. Macdonald, “9. Picked Nines and the Pick of Nines”, in The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, McFarland, →ISBN, page 83:
   • We sent two Slate writers who have never seen Tommy Wiseau’s disasterpiece to find out. 2017 December 1, Jeffrey Bloomer, Aisha Harris, “What It’s Like to Watch The Disaster Artist If You’ve Never Seen The Room”, in Slate, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2017:
   • When he did ultimately succumb to Myra Breckinridge’s abundant charms, Mike Sarne would end up making a celluloid disasterpiece that is to this day pilloried as one of the worst films ever made. 2008, Steven Daly, “Swinging into Disaster”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films, Penguin, →ISBN, page 242:

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