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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121. The news hound was unsuccessful, but the note struck him enough that he brought it in to the office.
122. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, who was unsuccessful in his own bid for the presidential nomination early this year.
123. As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position, he was unsuccessful.
124. Again in common with many ENs, I was unsuccessful on numerous occasions.
125. Abstract painting did have an equivalent in sculpture but it was largely unsuccessful.
126. It was, of course, long before her marriage to Charles Bronson and her ultimately unsuccessful battle against cancer.
127. Chimpanzees are such an unsuccessful species that they are considerably outnumbered by neuroscientists.
128. Rossignol and Phillis theorize that this pattern of caffeine use may reflect an unsuccessful attempt by the women to self-medicate with caffeine.
129. It would seem to follow from that that the unsuccessful plaintiff can sue again in the court of the defendant's domicile.
130. But unsuccessful outpatient treatment can significantly increase the risk that the patient will become invalided at home.
131. The speech marked Ventura's decision to withdraw into Minnesota politics following his unsuccessful flirtations with bigger ambitions.
132. They made several unsuccessful attempts before managing to enter Paperweight and take the items, most of which were later recovered.
133. Had three unsuccessful starts in the postseason, allowing 11 runs in seven innings.
134. The acclimatization of emersed plants into an aquarium environment is sometimes very lengthy or unsuccessful.
135. In 1881 he moved to London in an unsuccessful endeavour to enter journalism.
136. Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
137. I knew it would fall flat; but it wasn't the bad script which made the film unsuccessful.
138. At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint.
139. Following this unsuccessful attempt to return to Kidderminster, Richard Baxter spent the rest of his life in and around London.
140. Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue.
141. Bills promoted both by backbenchers and ministers to reform the law have been unsuccessful.
142. Peter Reith, an unsuccessful contender for the leadership,[http://sentencedict.com/unsuccessful.html] was elected as deputy leader.
143. Two years later he returned home to help his father set up a nursery, but the venture was unsuccessful.
144. After an unsuccessful foray into politics, Ramsey went back to his law practice.
145. Babbitt, 54, a former Governor of Arizona, was an unsuccessful candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
146. For all his experience, he was ill at ease in the chair, and unsuccessful in holding a fissiparous membership together.
147. They danced, and he made an unsuccessful bid on a weekend at Hilton Head.
148. Lady Ardshiel was prosecuted through the courts in an unsuccessful attempt to recover rents received by her since Culloden.
149. In 1988 he made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge Mr Hattersley for the deputy leadership.
150. It will be much easier to reactivate the application of an unsuccessful candidate who has been let down gently.
More similar words: successful, successfully, success, successor, succession, ecological succession, stressful, blissful, succeed, succeed in, access, accessory, accessibly, accessible, accessorize, inaccessible, accessibility, succor, succinct, succumb, succinctly, succulent, unsure, press for, excess, recess, cession, process, princess, incessant.