unsuccessfully

unsuccessful | American Dictionary

unsuccessful
adjective
us/ˌʌn·səkˈses·fəl/
not ending in success, or not achieving success:
After writing three unsuccessful plays, Miller finally had a hit.

unsuccessfully

adverbus/ˌʌn·səkˈses·fə·li/
Howard’s been unsuccessfully looking for an affordable apartment.

Examples of unsuccessful

unsuccessful
Having random police patrols apprehend only some "unsuccessful" attempting criminals is not unfair even when such patrols miss other attempting criminals.
We consider this unsuccessful development of reconstituted eggs to be due mainly to abnormal spindle formation and/or unequal distribution of chromatids, as described above.
The majority of attempts to isolate microorganisms from such samples have been unsuccessful, showing that most of the fluorescent-stained cells are viable, but non-culturable bacteria.
Evaluation showed that in this task they were unsuccessful, although the patients naturally enough appreciated this service.
Both successful and unsuccessful solving paths are stored as strategic cases (as opposed to problem cases) for future use.
Other teams using the standard model were either unsuccessful, or had to use fitting to past meteor storms to empirically set their prediction parameters.
We have argued that the search for gross abnormalities in discrete brain regions, structures, or pathways in developmental disorders is likely to be unsuccessful.
Matching constraints are not eliminated, thereby keeping track of matching failures during an unsuccessful reduction.
Two potential interviewees declined to be interviewed and obtaining interviews was unsuccessful with three others.
Unsuccessful switching occurred in six patients, who were subsequently treated with an alternative therapy.
Nightmares and bad dreams are therefore seen as unsuccessful attempts at solving our emotional problems.
It is possible that subjects who had been unsuccessful on the previous tests were discouraged, accounting for why 18 subjects gave up.
This is why the standard philosophical proofs for theism, even when accepted as valid, are likely to be unsuccessful in bringing about faith.
For the main analysis, a definition was scored as correct or incorrect, taken to indicate successful or unsuccessful\\failed lexical access respectively.
This approach proved unsuccessful as results suggested that schistosome and geohelminth infections are independently distributed within countries where they are both endemic.
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