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unsuccessfully

/uhn-suhk-ses-fuhl/US // ˌʌn səkˈsɛs fəl //UK // (ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfʊl) //

未获成功,不成功的,未成功的,未成功

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not achieving or not attended with success: an unsuccessful person;an unsuccessful venture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbadly

Examples

  • Gutierrez tries unsuccessfully to insinuate that Jay was cheating on Stephanie, suggesting ulterior motives.

  • Abbas has been committed—quite unsuccessfully, but nevertheless committed—to nonviolence.

  • She tried unsuccessfully to enter the United States in 2011, according to Interpol documents.

  • Her campaign was a textbook exercise in trying to thread the needle (unsuccessfully).

  • Mark Warner is a former Governor of Virginia who also unsuccessfully ran for Senate against John Warner in 1996.

  • His eyes began to follow her more intently when they were alone, and several times unsuccessfully he returned to the attack.

  • In 1792 he competed unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome, and this failure was the making of him.

  • The greater portion of these marshes, owing to the peat which forms their bed, is vigorously and not unsuccessfully worked.

  • The obvious drawbacks of such a state of things had long been subject of representation, but hitherto unsuccessfully.

  • Now as heretofore it will behoove the Editor of these pages, were it never so unsuccessfully, to do his endeavor.