Unsuccessfully
[,ʌnsək'sɛsfəli]
Definition
(adv.) without success; 'she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car'.
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Examples
- He had fished with assiduity on the previous evening, but the light was short, and he had fished unsuccessfully. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then he tried unsuccessfully to marry Brittany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Has your suit, then, been unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Edison came first to New York in 1868, with his early stock printer, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fledgeby now tried (very unsuccessfully) to imitate that action, as he shook his head and said, 'Placed her in that direction, did you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs. Stowe attempted unsuccessfully to have this identifying note removed from the stereotype-plate of the first edition. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We were going through the three first acts, and not unsuccessfully upon the whole. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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