Nerds all love it when there's a hot chick whom they know is one of them," says Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, who cast Kunis as Meg, the show's "frumpy, pathetic loser," as he puts it, more than a decade ago. He'd probably think she was a loser if she said that, though. She's very miserable.Īctually, she'd never had a boyfriend. There are people who are losers by virtue of being unpopular or unattractive or unhappy or generally denigrated, without any economic or social-class implications:Ĭher is somewhat of a loser. So tonight we ask, are Republicans being sore losers, or simply serving their constituents? The damned thing doesn't even know it lost, and even if it did, it wouldn't care.Īndrew was delighted to find that besides being a braggart Charles was a liar and a bad loser. isn't a good loser, and it isn't a bad loser. Khrushchev is not the world's ideal of a good loser. "I like class in horses and women."Īccordingly, the battle is not over yet. "I like a gambling woman and a good loser," he says. There are good losers and bad losers and sore losers, none of whom are especially likely to be "little people": Signing stars like Outfielder Richie Zisk to a ten-year, $2.9 million contract made a perennial money loser of the Texas Rangers. The result was ownership of a group of smallish hospitals, none of them dominant in their market, some of them money losers, and many of them low occupancy in highly competitive urban markets. "I just decided this was going to be it," confided one successful weight loser. There are literal losers of weight, money, and so on: The high court usually waits until the loser in such an action has had twenty-five days in which to ask for a rehearing. The costs of litigation are notoriously high, especially the loser's side in an appeal. Russia can not hope to be anything but the loser in an all-out war. Hence, the honor roll supplements the valedictorian, and the quiz-show loser wins a Cadillac. South was able to trump the next heart, keeping East from gaining the lead. Trading a diamond loser for a heart loser was a most profitable exchange. We might then run the risk of not infrequent election of the loser of the popular vote, and it is a risk that may seem prohibitive.
The Chicago Cubs, the lovable losers, are once again making a run at the playoffs.īut Haitians now have to rise to this opportunity to create a political system of local culture where violence isn't the solution to the problem, where the losers of elections are respected, as well as the winner, where the military is subservient to civilian power.Īsked whether he thought the loser of the California primary should withdraw, he replied: "That's a decision the loser would have to make." The Spurs (losers to the Suns) were without injured starters David Robinson, Willie Anderson and Rod Strickland, and the Lakers (losers to the Blazers) were minus Magic Johnson (retired after testing HIV positive), James Worthy and Sam Perkins. There are literal or semi-literal losers in various sorts of competitions: games, sports, gambling, elections, court cases, awards: Krugman asks, since "loser" can be used for many things besides disparaging someone who "who hasn’t made it big, hasn’t gotten rich". But it doesn't actually answer the question that Prof. The ngram graph does indicate that the word "losers" increased in frequency in the last half of the 20th century, at least in published books.
And I think this word usage reflects something real - a growing contempt for the little people. Sure enough, the term “losers” has become much more common since the 1960s. The other day someone - I don’t remember who or where - asked an interesting question: when did it become so common to disparage anyone who hasn’t made it big, hasn’t gotten rich, as a “loser”? Well, that’s actually a question we can answer, using Google Ngrams, which track the frequency with which words or phrases are used in books:
Paul Krugman, " You're all losers", NYT :
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