Synonym: abortive, failing, fruitless, unfortunate. Similar words: successful, successfully, success, successor, succession, ecological succession, stressful, blissful. Meaning: adj. 1. not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome 2. failing to accomplish an intended result.
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61. The Society was substantially unsuccessful in its aim of persuading other charities to adopt the same methods.
62. He has already made three unsuccessful shots at the presidency.
63. He waged an unsuccessful primary bid for president in 1988.
64. No doubt the dead man had returned in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend from a similar fate.
65. "Silverado" was an entertaining but unsuccessful attempt to resurrect the Western.
66. By this time Sadler was interested in steam engines: in 1791 he obtained a patent for an unsuccessful rotary engine.
67. But where there is energy there is life, so it is unlikely that you will be jobless or unsuccessful for long.
68. Attempts to organize boycotts of contributions by employers of servants were apparently unsuccessful.
69. Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
70. Chief executive Tom Hughes said the reason for the delay was to inform the unsuccessful candidates before a public announcement was made.
71. Here is the story of one of them, Derek, the most unsuccessful train spotter in the world.
72. First, it was unsuccessful on the correct interpretation of the relevant statute, the Police Act 1964.
73. This means that any of those experiments in plant association which prove to be unsuccessful can be scrapped without too many regrets.
74. Police attempts to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups have been largely unsuccessful.
75. The Panel is not sympathetic to delay in making an announcement occasioned by an unsuccessful application for suspension.
76. The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.
77. Jack Lemmon, his longtime amateur partner, will be absent after 23 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to make the pro-am cut.
78. The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work.
79. However, he was largely unsuccessful in attempts to broaden the basis of his government's political support.
80. Six days later, after unsuccessful attempts to re-establish contact, the company declared it permanently out of service.
81. Searchers look by air and on the ground for Knetter, but are unsuccessful.
82. Darwin met Robert Grant during a brief and unsuccessful spell as a medical student at Edinburgh.
83. I regret to inform you that your application was unsuccessful.
84. In 1721 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of astronomy at Oxford.
85. Competition in the private sector works the same way: successful new ideas draw customers,[http://sentencedict.com] and unsuccessful ones die out.
86. The good news is that all three of these lawsuits were unsuccessful.
87. A statistical analysis selected those strategies more frequently used in successful than unsuccessful situations.
88. Although listening devices and seismic instruments were put in place, efforts to pinpoint the source of the noise were unsuccessful.
89. If these measures are unsuccessful, then it may be worth carrying out an elimination diet, as described in Chapter Fourteen.
90. Also, treatment was considered unsuccessful when clinical remission was not achieved after four weeks.
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