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- adjective Not
successful .
Etymologies
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non- + successful
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Examples
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"I'd rather have 50% of the profits in a successful venture than 100% of the profits in a nonsuccessful one," he said.
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New research shows that lower-class, nonsuccessful "bad guys" smoke more often in movies than wealthy movie heroes, a finding that contradicts previous research examining smoking in the movies.
Internet legal stuff 2005
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