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

A century and a half ago, when the Lisbon earthquake destroyed forty thousand Portuguese, Voltaire attempted, with equal unsuccess, to vindicate Providence with the faint hope of the Deist.

From The War and the Churches by McCabe, Joseph