Noun
An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class child of wealthy and influential parents.
Usage- Internet
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The college admissions cheating scandal revealed the details of a formalized process for jamming the failchildren of wealthy and prominent families into otherwise credible and prestigious universities, using an expensive "side door" for parents whose wealth leaves them a rung or two shy of the opportunity to just fund a new wing on campus.
The bitingly funny, Las Vegas-by-way-of-L.A.-set HBO series Hacks took home three awards at the Emmys on Monday night, including the coveted prize for outstanding comedy series, and as luck would have it, one of the show's brightest spots—comedian Meg Stalter, who plays the immaculately clad Hollywood failchild Kayla—was on hand to deliver the look of a lifetime.
Third, "Succession" allowed for multiple political and philosophical readings of its narrative, beyond the simple "here's how rich failchildren enable fascism" reading that many liberal viewers took for granted and no doubt some of the writers had in mind.
The clear thrust of the right's attack is that Biden fils was able to skate on far more serious—if never specified or documented—charges of rampant corruption in his Ukrainian and Chinese business dealings by pleading out on these lesser charges. But consider the unchecked run of Trump failchildren at the helm of shady international enterprises, or Trump's own staggering run of organized tax evasion and serial business fraud.