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un·suc·cess·ful·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unsuccessfullyadverb

    without success

    "she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car"

Wiktionary

  1. unsuccessfullyadverb

    Not successfully; without success.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unsuccessfullyadverb

    Unfortunately; without success.

    The humble and contented man pleases himself innocently; while the ambitious man attempts to please others sinfully, and, perhaps, in the issue unsuccessfully too. South.

ChatGPT

  1. unsuccessfully

    Unsuccessfully refers to a state or condition of not achieving the intended goal, objective or result, marked by a lack of success, effectiveness, or favorable outcome. It implies an attempt that failed to reach its desired completion or aim.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsuccessfully in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsuccessfully in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of unsuccessfully in a Sentence

  1. Robert Driscoll:

    We've been trying to work something out, unsuccessfully, with the government, who seems intent on pressing forward with incarceration, notwithstanding, you know, a pretty weak case.

  2. Michael Miller:

    Monsanto is arguing the same worn out arguments it unsuccessfully used in the first trial.

  3. The Russian ministry:

    It was not for the first time that South Korean pilots tried unsuccessfully to prevent Russian aircraft from flying over the neutral waters of the Sea of ??Japan.

  4. Elliott Abrams:

    We have made the argument, unsuccessfully to date, to both Russia and China that they are not helping themselves, if they are concerned ... about the recovery of money they have lent or invested, a bankrupt Venezuelan economy will never be able to repay those amounts, only a Venezuela in recovery will be able to do so.

  5. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis:

    Life is too short to learn everything by experience,” Mattis told reporters after the event. “In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully.”

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    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A render
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