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
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
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
After repeated attempts, charmingly comical, and much vain mending of the reed with the edge of Nothung, he grows impatient, is ashamed of his unsuccess before the "roguish listener."
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
