abortive
adjective
failing to succeed; unsuccessful.
abortively
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a word derived from
abortive.
Example Sentences
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He launched a profitable security firm and ran abortively for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
M ., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Or, if abortively, poor man must die, Nor reach, what reach he might, why die in dread?
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
But he sends countermands to his generals, and the pursuit ends abortively.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
He walked on beside her, puffing contentedly, and apparently recollecting abortively; until, to stimulate his memory, she said rather crisply:—"Well?"
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
