unsuccessfully en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfəli/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From unsuccessful + -ly or un- + successfully.
Meanings
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Not successfully; without success; to no avail.
Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the "Stafford Arms", where Lady Stafford tried unsuccessfully to educate the locals to drink beer instead of a strong whisky.
1960 January 14, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unsuccessfully | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unsuccessfully | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
hi असफलतापूर्वक (not successfully; without success) · hu sikertelenül (not successfully; without success) · cs neúspěšně (not successfully; without success) · es no exitosamente (not successfully; without success) · eo sensukcese (not successfully; without success) · ka წარუმატებლად (not successfully; without success) · ru безуспе́шно (not successfully; without success)