unsuccessfullyadv.
/ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfᵿli/, /ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfl̩i/, U.S. /ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəli/ Without success.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adverb]
unhappily1533
unluckily?1544
unprosperously1564
improsperously1605
unsuccessfully1649
successlessly1652
insuccessively1657
unsuccessively1707
unkindly1743
1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 35 Propensions..which if disobeyed succeeded untowardly and unsuccessfully.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 18 Nor was the heroic cause unsuccesfully defended to all Christendom against the tongue of a famous and thought invincible adversarie.
1664 J. Dryden Rival Ladies Ded. sig. A3 Fortune..with which, Wisdome does often unsuccessfully struggle in the World.
a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 177 Several letters shew his punctual performance of it, tho' unsuccessfully.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xi. 183 Has your suit, then, been unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress?
1873 R. A. Proctor Expanse of Heaven 287 Our short-lived race..has..not unsuccessfully carried out the daring scheme [etc.].
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