From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfailedfailed /feɪld/ adjective → a failed actor/writer etc
Examples from the Corpus
failed• Rebleeders who did not receive a second injection with the same solution were defined as failed cases.• The line number containing the failed cross-reference is renumbered and the line number in the error report is the new line number.• When a disk fails, objects are re-replicated on remaining disks and the system becomes fault-tolerant again with replacing the failed disk.• Currently the need for a revision is the most commonly used definition of a failed operation.• I set out the failed supper. 