Synonyms for lost cause
lost cause

Princeton's WordNet

1. lost causenoun

   a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

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1. Robert E. Lee:

   That whole mentality of the Lost Cause started to seep into my life, it then became a point of retrospection and trying to figure out what is the point of all this ? Why are we celebrating this man who enslaved people and fought for the continued enslavement of Black people on this continent ?

2. One Western diplomat in Ankara:

   People are realising more and more that Russia is a lost cause and that we need to find more allies to the east and south. Turkey is number one, russia is drawing Turkey into its orbit, and if it's not stopped now, then it may be too late.

3. Marc Leepson:

   The analogy that comes to mind is Confederate statues, most Confederate statues weren't put up right after the Civil War. They were part of the spreading of the Lost Cause Theory, and then Jim Crow and segregation. They had a purpose in the eyes of the public.

4. David Blight:

   That is standard Lost Cause ideology circa 1890 to 1910, this man, that language right there, is the standard defense of The Lost Cause built over the period of decades as an ideology explaining confederate defeat, but also as a racial ideology.

5. Ralph Northam:

   The past 18 months have seen historic change, from the pandemic to protests for racial justice that led to the removal of these monuments to a lost cause, it is fitting that we replace the old time capsule with a new one that tells that story.