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Unsuccessful   /ˌənsəksˈɛsfəl/   Listen
Unsuccessful

adjective
1.
Not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome.
2.
Failing to accomplish an intended result.  Synonyms: abortive, stillborn.  "A stillborn plot to assassinate the President"



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"Unsuccessful" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Lincoln made his unsuccessful canvass for the Illinois Assembly. The election over, he began to look for work. One of his friends, an admirer of his physical strength, advised him to become a blacksmith, but it was a trade which would afford little leisure for study, and for meeting and talking with men; ...
— McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896 • Various
... work, was his migration to Ireland, and his settlement there for the greater part of the remaining eighteen years of his life. We know little more than the main facts of this change from the court and the growing intellectual activity of England, to the fierce and narrow interests of a cruel and unsuccessful struggle for colonization, in a country which was to England much what Algeria was to France some thirty years ago. Ireland, always unquiet, had became a serious danger to Elizabeth's Government. It was its ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church
... had not that keen and far-sighted intellect nor that grandeur of purpose which afterward distinguished the military founder of another soldiery that became formidable to kings. The Templars were unintelligent and therefore unsuccessful Jesuits. ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... John was afraid for himself, since his treachery had proved unsuccessful. So he took the armed men that were about him, and removed from Tiberias to Gischala, and wrote to me to apologize for himself concerning What had been done, as if it had been done without his approbation, and desired me to have no suspicion of him to his disadvantage. ...
— The Life of Flavius Josephus • Flavius Josephus
... two weeks the Union army had to live from the enemy's country, and then after all to fall back to Holly Springs. Meanwhile Sherman, ignorant of his superior's ill fortune, descended the Mississippi, and with a force of 30,000 made during the last days of the year an unsuccessful ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews


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