Definition: 1. Not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome. 2. Failing to accomplish an intended result.
Use 'unsuccessful' in a sentence:
1. He has been unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat on the board of the company.
2. China has not been totally unsuccessful apprehending corruption suspects.
3. Unsuccessful people are always asking," What's in it for me?"
4. There are successful coupon clippers and successful securities resellers and they tend to make their money off of the unsuccessful people in the other class.
5. After several frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance.
6. That's why unsuccessful people have so many excuses.
7. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
8. hot mess-a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered.
9. Any unsuccessful test needs to be rerun.
10. Unsuccessful people often avoid hard choices. They defer decisions.
11. Unsuccessful people usually just let life happen by accident.
12. Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN film show.
13. Despite his efforts, he ended up unsuccessful after all.
14. She is an unsuccessful farmer.
15. He also trained as a gauger or exciseman in case farming continued to be unsuccessful.
16. How to be an unsuccessful single?
17. The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful people put into practice the things they learn.
18. A brief and unsuccessful flirtation with the property market.
19. He and his friend Boris were unsuccessful in getting a job.
20. Sitting in his room, Lu Sheng lamented1 over his poverty and unsuccessful career and sighed in grief with knitted brows and a long face.
21. In the same year general kirsanov was put on the retired list after an unsuccessful review.
22. This unsuccessful ordeal had taken almost 3 hours!
23. His first sortie into politics was unsuccessful.
24. The update from Manager1 is unsuccessful.
25. Unfortunately attempts to crossbreed it with other potatoes have been unsuccessful.
26. No doubt, everyone recognized the unsuccessful man in the very way he slouched along.
27. Unsuccessful, he called the police.
28. Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN show.
29. His efforts were unsuccessful.
30. There were reports last month of unsuccessful negotiations between guerrillas and commanders.
31. The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.
32. David was an unsuccessful suicide.
33. He made an unsuccessful run for governor in 2005.
34. Because this fact was no recognized, the early magnetic prospecting for iron deposits was spectacularly unsuccessful.
35. They lose, and they're forced to surrender Azov to the Turks after an unsuccessful war.
36. His attempts to peddle his paintings around Laramie's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
37. His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
38. The attack was unsuccessful and served only to alert the enemy.
39. In the nineteenth century, scientists made a number of important, but unsuccessful attempts to calculate Earth's age from the record of various natural processes.
40. She made several unsuccessful attempts to see him.
41. They were unsuccessful in meeting their objectives for the year.
42. A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
43. Their legal challenge was unsuccessful.
44. Fail—"a noun or interjection used when something is egregiously unsuccessful"—was 2009's the most useful word.
45. The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
46. His efforts to get a job proved unsuccessful.
47. The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.
