unsuccess
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 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
So far free from interruption more staying than a chance glance or careless comment, they seemed about to end an evening successful in its unsuccess, when there sounded a verbal assault.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
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