Synonyms:
defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted
Meaning: disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"
Usage examples
He grinned crookedly; this time the Englishman would be foiled.
must he go back to Heaven unsacrificed, foiled for want of an assassin?
Foiled in this fashion, she had fallen back in desperation on her second line of attack.
She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey--whiskey undiluted--and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghost-ship, when all of a sudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled and overflowed, and he was himself in a condition similar to that of a man who has fallen into a water-butt.