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unsuccess

[uhn-suhk-ses] / ˌʌn səkˈsɛs /


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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

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

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

Unheirlike heir; Richard Cromwell has received double measure of that censure which the world’s judgment too readily gives to unsuccess, finding favour neither from Royalists nor Cromwellians. 

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry




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