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unsuccess

American  
[uhn-suhk-ses] / ˌʌn səkˈsɛs /

noun

  1. lack of success; failure.


Etymology

Origin of unsuccess

First recorded in 1580–90; un- 1 + success


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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

The measures against Choshu were now recommenced, but with complete unsuccess, and thus a final blow was given to the prestige of the Yedo Government.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

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