successless
- a word derived from success.
Example Sentences
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Passion unpitied and successless love Plant daggers in my breast.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
"Miss Burney," said Mrs. Thrale, laughing, "you must take great care of your heart if Dr. Johnson attacks it; for I assure you he is not often successless."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
The payment of other debts might be postponed for a month, and my situation be the same as before the adoption of this successless scheme.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
The hero he celebrates made a brave but successless attempt to rescue it from slavery.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan
Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays; Not that my quill to critics was confined, My verse gave ampler lessons to mankind; So gravest precepts may successless prove.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George
