unsuccess
Example Sentences
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Not only are you a panda, with all the reproductive unsuccess that generally entails — you’re YOU.
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2015
But “Ishtar” has entered the lexicon — along with “Heaven’s Gate,” “Waterworld” and “Howard the Duck” — as shorthand for large-scale cinematic unsuccess.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2013
When Margery Lee, the local schoolmistress, came to board and his brother Jeff courted her with signal unsuccess, Luke understood Jeff's sudden departure.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Nan heard of Denis's early unsuccess, and was thankful; a proud silence she could understand and might learn to forgive.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
