Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Failure to achieve a desired end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of success; failure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of success; failure; misfortune.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
success
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether one can fairly use the word "unsuccess" in reference to verse which succeeds so exquisitely as Mr. de la Mare's in being literature is a nice question.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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Larkin was beginning as he put it himself, retrospectively "to find out what life was about": not failure exactly but "unsuccess".
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Why would I want to take the game for another hunter and rob them of their success, or unsuccess for that matter?
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Why would I want to take the game for another hunter and rob them of their success, or unsuccess for that matter?
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Unlike Dr. King and Malcolm X who encouraged Black people to patronize their neighborhood stores, and ‘shop Black,’ Obama is convinced that gentrification is not a major factor in the unsuccess of community-stores, but rather, littering – which, following his logic, is a genetic deficiency of Blackness.
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They -- if they -- if they are unsuccess -- if the campaign that they're associated with is unsuccessful, what they want to do is move to the campaign that is successful.
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They -- if they -- if they are unsuccess -- if the campaign that they're associated with is unsuccessful, what they want to do is move to the campaign that is successful.
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In 1980, Jean Strouse published an award-winning study of the short, pathetic, life of Alice James … Alice died of cancer in 1892, at the age of 43, and the enormous fame and accomplishment of her two eldest brothers — Henry (the novelist) and William (the psychologist/philosopher) — eventually brought attention to her terrible life of illness and, as W.H. Auden so unforgettably put it, her all-too human “unsuccess.”
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In 1980, Jean Strouse published an award-winning study of the short, pathetic, life of Alice James … Alice died of cancer in 1892, at the age of 43, and the enormous fame and accomplishment of her two eldest brothers — Henry (the novelist) and William (the psychologist/philosopher) — eventually brought attention to her terrible life of illness and, as W.H. Auden so unforgettably put it, her all-too human “unsuccess.”
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His young features were stamped with a melancholy grace, his looks told of unsuccess and many blighted hopes.
The Magic Skin 2007
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